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Since reading and looking at this months MR, Ive gotten on a corn kick (I grew up where corn is everywhere).  Anyway, I have a HO scale field on a module.   I would like to turn it into a corn field, or rather have removable field inserts to show different crops so that people coming to shows every year have something new to gaze upon instead of the same scenery on the same layout every year. I also want to rotate the crops in my fields because it is prototypical (or at least thats how my grandfather did it).   I have a 48" long by 8" plantable area.  I looked into prototype spacing of corn rows.  The individual plants are typically planted 6-8" apart and in rows 20"-40" wide.  I did math for 8" spacing...512 plants per row....no not going there.  12" spacing of plants yielded 341 plants per row *19 rows (8" width) gives 6479 plants.  Which works out to 180 packages of Faller corn plants ($2228.40).  Just a bit more than I want to spend on corn.  Im thinking plant the corn across the narrow width of the field, use 40" spacing on the rows and space the cornstalks at 18"-20"?  Move the corn to the edge of the module (currently has a road, but im not married to that configuration) and cut the width down a few inches.  Cutting down to 36" rotating 90 degrees and reducing the field width to 6" and increasing the spacing to 18" requires 2291 plants, or 64 packages of Faller corn.  $792.32  <--thats getting better.    Maintaining the same dimensions above, but increasing the individual cornstalk spacing to 2ft reduces to 21 per row, 1659 plants total $581.86. I could use Busch, but I have a couple packages of that product and was not impressed with the appearance (the field Cody made in 2006 looked pretty good).  I looked at the Bluford shops in person at springfield, but was similarly unimpressed with the product visually, so I didnt buy any.  Looking at their website, it certainly is the cheapest, at $44.95 for 1100 plants/ 66sqin area. I wonder if I could use one of the less expensive products as filler with more expensive corn saved for the first few plants in each row?  I wonder if the Bluford Shops or Busch corn could be made to look like the more expensive corn, enough to hide that fact from the viewer.
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