Savvy Iowan Takes Corn Sales To Ebay
The tasty crunch of sweet corn is just a couple of clicks away for folks outside of the Midwest thanks to some Iowa entrepreneurs.
The golden, buttery bounty seems be everywhere in Iowa — in grocery stores and on street corners being sold out of the backs of pickups. But since the craving for sweet corn knows no state boundaries, Fred Vogel, of Adair, has set up a new sort of sweet corn stand on the Internet auction site eBay.
The tricky part, he said, was figuring out how to keep the fragile corn fresh during shipping. His answer was a special shipping cooler he developed with the help of a friend who works with the local Extension Service.
He said test shipments of corn stayed fresh for up to four days — but he tries to make sure they’re delivered in less than three days.
Shipping costs $20 or more, but customers pay just $10 for a dozen ears.
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