Wildfire Dent Corn

Anyone here growing the Wildfire Dent Corn that is sold by Adaptive Seeds? Looking for a review - does it lodge easily, can it also handle wetter weather like the upper Midwest, have you cooked with it?

Wildfire is brand new, so you're not going to see much about it.  It's an improved variety of Open Oak Party Mix, however, so you can pretty much just research that, however, it's my understanding that it's also a fairly new grex. Open Oak Party Mix is used mostly for things like cornmeal and polenta.

Open Oak Party Mix is a "flinty dent type selected from a freely crossed population of Wapsie Valley Dent, Vermont Flint, Garland Flint, Italian Polenta and several unnamed dent varieties from a University of Wisconsin breeding project for nutrition".

So, Open Oak Party Mix is a grex of many corn varieties, and 'Wildfire' is an improved variety bred for dry farming in the Pacific Northwest in collaboration with OSU's Dry Farmed Corn Breeding Project:

https://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/sites/agscid7/files/corn_presentation_slides.pdf

Here in the Pacific Northwest, most of our soils are clay, and pretty much all our rain falls during the winter, and a having 3 months of absolutely no rain during the summer isn't uncommon.  Our daytime highs reach about 87 on average, but our lows at night often go into the 50s.  So they say we have a relatively "cool and dry" summer.  Since we don't have a lot of heat degree hours, most of our crops here need to be early ripening.

The Open Oak Party Mix seems to do very well in our climate and I'm hoping Wildfire will be and even better performer in my dry farmed garden.

Thanks for taking time to reply to my query. I took the plunge and bought seed of Wildfire so we'll see how it does here in Minnesota. Our upper midwest climate has always been challenging, but even more so in recent years especially with a roller coaster of excessive rains or droughts. Our clay/loam soil does help with some of these fluctuations. And of course we still have the usual ups and downs of temperatures. So short season strategy for everything is working better than ever to get crops to maturity with fewer days of exposure to the harsh extremes. "Normal" is no longer in play. Hope you have a great growing season!