OUTLOOK, Sask. — Move over Taber corn. Saskatchewan is preparing to take you on.
“You’re going to hear a lot about corn in the next three to five years,” predicts Bryan Kosteroski, value chain manager at the Agriculture Council of Saskatchewan.
“You’re going to hear the words ‘Saskatchewan sweet corn’ over and over and over again.”
The crop has been a surprising success for Prairie Fresh Food Corp., the 16-grower group now in its second year of supplying Federated Co-operatives Ltd. grocery stores in Sask-atchewan.
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FCL wasn’t sure at first that it wanted to try selling Saskatchewan corn. It was happy with its out-of-province supplier, said provincial vegetable specialist Connie Achtymichuk.
“We convinced him we should be able to fill Saskatchewan supply,” she said. “The corn was excellent.”
Achtymichuk said it’s even better than Taber corn.
Kosteroski said Saskatchewan has never challenged the conventional wisdom that corn from other places is better, but now it’s time.
Dan Erlandson from Spring Creek Market is the Prairie Fresh corn grower who has taken the crop from zero to 200,000 cobs last year to an expected 400,000 this year.
“We’ll probably have him at a million cobs in three years,” Kosteroski said.