For sweet corn growers

Picked this morning. Counted by tonight.

Sweet corn is the purest count-back business in farming: picked at dawn because the sugars won't wait, sold by the dozen off a tailgate or an honor box, gone by noon on a good Saturday. The season is six weeks and the deer take their cut before you do. MadeKeeper counts the dozens out, the dozens back, and what the morning really paid.

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How MadeKeeper maps to your stand

Dozen ears is the unitThe dawn pick logs in dozens of ears — that's how you sell it and how the stand counts it. Bi-color and white track separately if you grow both.

The honor box, reconciledStock the box, count the cash at dusk — the difference between dozens gone and dollars in is the day's honest story, shortage included.

Growing costs attributedSeed, fertilizer, water, and fuel spread across the season's dozens — so a $7 dozen shows its real margin, not just its gross.

Succession plantings, trackedFour plantings two weeks apart means six weeks of supply. Log each block's harvest window and the season's rhythm shows up in the numbers.

One Saturday morning, to the penny

Say you pick 40 dozen at dawn:

34 dozen sold @ $7$238.00
4 dozen to the seconds cooler @ $4$16.00
2 dozen unsold — the deer and the doubtful$0.00
Attributed growing cost, 40 dozen @ 85¢−$34.00
Honor-box shortage−$7.00

The morning, after costs$213.00

Against the 5 a.m. pick and the stand hours, that's a real wage for real work — and by August the ledger says whether next year plants five blocks or three.

Selling your own raw produce keeps the paperwork light in most states — producer-only rules and untaxed raw food — and if the stand runs by weight anywhere, that's certified-scale territory. MadeKeeper keeps the sales records clean either way; your county's stand rules stay yours to check.

Straight about what's live

Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →

Questions sweet corn growers ask

How do I cost corn I grew myself?

Spread the season's real inputs — seed, fertilizer, water, fuel — across the dozens you actually picked. It lands around 75¢ to a dollar a dozen for most small patches, and it turns 'corn money' into a margin you can compare to the sweat.

Does the honor box really work on the books?

Yes — stock counts out, cash counts in, and the difference logs as shrink without drama. Most stands find the box runs 90-something percent honest, and knowing the number beats wondering.

What about the corn that doesn't sell by noon?

The seconds cooler at $4, the food-bank box, or the pigs — all honest ends. Log them as the discount and shrink they are, and the season's yield math stays true enough to plan on.

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