Fresno State Sweet Corn Arrives

Every year fresno state students produce massive amounts of sweet corn and year after year, people line up and wait hours to get their hands on it.
With their shopping carts ready the moment the doors opened at Gibson market, folks were already filling their bags. Before opening at 8:00 this morning, dozens were lined up around the building.
Tate Sandborg is a senior at Fresno State and helped produce famous sweet corn.
"It’s pretty crazy especially when they have the openings and when they tell everybody and there will be a line out here just to get sweet corn", says Sandborg.
He says that they’ve been growing this batch since august and that the university has a special patent on the seed, that makes it so delicious.
"It’s the best sweet corn available, they said they sold out in 90minutes last year, I get up at 5 anyway, I figured I would get in line early and get some for dinner tonight", says shopper Julie Yoshida. Another shopper Paula Holguin says, "the last time I came I missed it, we got to the door and they sold out so I told my husband the next day because I had to work, I told him you better be here at 6:30 to get the corn, so he showed up and got our corn".
By 10:00am the market had already sold 35 bins and more than 17 thousand ears of corn
"The corn, I love the corn, ever have a piece you love that is so good , ever have a piece of corn that wasn’t sweet and you’re like I can’t do this anymore and you just want that perfect corn and this is where you come to get that perfect piece of corn, it’s so awesome and so good", says corn fanatic Pilar Flores.
The students work on this produce for years and when they graduate, they have the skills to send them out into the farming work force.
"I’ve been doing this for about a year and a half now and greatly enjoy it and I’ll actually be graduating and starting a full time position here pretty quick", says Sandborg.
If you didn’t get your hands on todays corn, don’t worry, the store will open up again Saturday morning at 9:00am. Corn ears cost 3 for 99 cents