I had read in an old farm book about a variety of corn called Burr White. In the 30s it was developed into four strains. One that had 21.9 percent protein. So, I did a search for high protein corn online and the main one that keeps coming up is called Floriani Red Flint. It's an Italian variety of flint corn with a protein rating of 20 percent. Does anyone know of any others or have any experience with either of these? I'm looking for a high protein feed that I can grow on my farm to raise broilers among other things. The Floriani is listed as being good for milling as well as feed. The one issue I see with it is supposed low yields. But for home use I don't think that would matter much, and maybe yields could be improved over time.

No clue. But I have lots of broilers and I'll be watching this thread.

I don't see "low yield" as having much meaning without clarification. For example, if you are specifically looking for protein, and one variety produces 20%, while another produces 8%, the 8% variety has to produce more than double the tonnage per acre to match the 20% variety in tons of protein per acre.

And then you have input costs of each to consider. If you can save all, or a large percentage, of your seed for the next year's crop from season to season, "low yield" starts looking more and more attractive, economically.

That's my thoughts as well, T Payne. I am thinking of ordering some of the Floriani Red and giving it a try. If nothing else it supposed to make good polenta and corn bread. I've never raised a flint corn, so don't much about it in that respect but I'm willing to give it a try.

Floriani takes a LONG time to dry down to harvest. When dry though it is an awesome grinding corn. !!!