I'm a farmer

I guess farmers take their job way to seriosly.

Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God.

It's a movie. THIS is a forum, where people DISCUSS movies. So get over it yourself.

Some farmers keep just one or two dairy cows because they like fresh milk for themselves. I these cases they generally milk them by hand because the expense of purchasing, operating, and maintaining a milking machine can't be justified.

That being said, it's been long enough since I've seen this movie that I don't know if that is the case here or not.

I did laugh it up. I liked this movie. I really did. Just don't like scenes that could have been written a little better. the cow and plow scenes are prime examples of not bad writing but lazy writing. The cow scene is very important becasue it teaches Zak not to be such a brat and show some respect toward his family. The whole milking scene was just a why to get Crawl and Zak alone. But they could have had doen the same thing. only showing Crawl how to hook the cow up to a milking machine. It would have been more believable without much change in the script

But that's just the opinion of an armchair director

"Don't make me roll for Initiative, Flameboy"

the best part was when zack throws the suitcases down. Zack is definately the best part of the movie... it wasnt meant to be the best movie ever.

"Smells like someone's cooking a goddamn cat over there!" - Brumsfield

hahaha, well said :-D

You make good points. Basically, nothing in this scene would have happened the way it did (for starters, there's no way Crawl would have been able to operate the combine), so there's no point getting worked up over the fact that Walter wasn't upset. To answer some of your questions:

"With that said......... would that really have destroyed Walter's main income?"
No. He would have run over some by not following the rows, but the corn in the movie was ready to harvest so what he picked would have been sold or stored for feed.

"I have no clue how the corn market works. I'm pretty sure that it has to be sceduled to be shipped somewhere before it's cut, or it will go bad before the farmer can make money off of the cut crop. I'd appreciate it if you gave some more info on how farmers sell the corn they grow."
Most farmers have a certain amount of storage on site, especially if they keep some of the gran to feed livestock. Generally there are plenty of local grain elevators that will take the corn as it is harvested. The only real downside here would be if Walter didn't have bin space to store the picked corn himself and the market was down at the time, which would force him to pay to store it at an elevator or sell at a lower price than he wanted to.

"Especially because the corn grown around here doesn't look green like the fresh corn that I can buy locally at Kroger or walmart for like 33 cents each. What's up with that, and where is that corn that doesn't turn brown grown?"
The corn you see turning brown in the field (and in the movie) is "field corn" which is considered a grain and is used to feed livestock and make flour. What you buy in the produce section is a genetic mutation of field corn called "sweet corn" which is green because it is harvested from truck farms and garden patches for use as a vegetable. Field corn has to be harvested late to make sure the cellular moisture is low, otherwise it couldn't be stored any length of time without rotting. Sweet corn is harvested early because if it is allowed to dry out it will be too hard to eat as a vegetable. Corn Nuts are basically sweet corn that has been allowed to dry out before it is boiled.

Sorry for the long-winded reply, but I hope this helps.