Farms: Farmers turn to professionals to cut corn mazes
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In the increasingly popular world of "agritainment," a well attended corn maze can be extremely lucrative for a local farm. Fall activities like pumpkin picking and hay rides have become popular family outings, but as competition for "agritourists" heats up, farmers are turning to professional corn maze designers to deliver elaborate mazes, complete with checkpoints and games. Most corn mazes open in September, but the planning starts long before. Designs are drawn up in early Spring, and the mazes are cut in the summer, when the corn is still short. There are only about three or four professional corn maze companies in the country and every summer, professionals travel from state to state cutting mazes. (Video by Nyier Abdou/The Star-Ledger)
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Much more economical and easier to create your maze when the corn is young people do this now with mowers and gps a lot more cost effective and better on the soil
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Corn maizes are fun. Haha, get it? maize?
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This is cool. I've been through several corn mazes but never saw how they were made.
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In the end it balances out very well! Where we live it is really a hit and what we may lose in corn and yield we bring back in with those who come to the maze. The land we use for the maze usually pulls a poor yield anyways.
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thats cool but its a really big waste of money and corn, if u could find some way of workin the maze in while your planting it would be better, i think the money you would make from peaple walkin through the maze is lost with to corn your distroyin making the maze
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its cool, but its a waste of corn
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that is sort of cool