My brother in law has a friend from early 1970s army days. He is now a PHD professor at some university up in Delaware and lives in New Jersey. He told me that there were people up there burning shelled corn in wood heaters when corn was cheap. I asked him if they had trees up there and he affirmed they did but that corn had been cheap (not anymore) and it was easy to just burn that. At first I thought he was talking about corn stalks but he said it was shelled whole corn.
Cannot be cost effective even at 3 or 4 dollars a bag. Those little firewood bundles at stores would dollar out tremendously if figured by the cord.
Corn stoves are like pellet stoves with an auger and a small but intense fire box and blowers. It's a whole different animal than wood stoves. My farmer neighbor has one in his family room. Of course he plants 4-5000 acres yearly so...
They say everything happens for a reason. For me that reason is usually because I've made some bad decisions that I need to pay for.
