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Farmers Picked corn

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Dust is flying in Terre Haute.
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In my neck of woods, they use self propelled picker/shellers, which some call call combines .
 
The farmer who started picking today has his own grain drying operation and semis. He farms thousands of acres and loves new Green equipment.
 
Growing up, we picked corn...on the ear, with a corn picker. When I started farming in "72, and for many years, we called it combining. Recent years, with everyone running combines, it"s back to "picking".
 
In 1955 my dad bought his first self propelled John Deere picker sheller. Someone was on it 24/7. Dad even had a grain drying.
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Does he run watermellon combines? You know, green on the outside but red on the inside. We just call them self propelled feed grinders!
 
My dad got a new jd corn head in 59. He tried to run it at least to midnight. I can remember running it from then to daylight. On frozen ground. Then going to school. It was a 45 rice with a spike tooth cylinder. Had big filler plates on the cylinder and concave. Also a ho-made cab. With a plexiglass windshield.
 
I have drying bins at both farms, but with grain prices so low, doesnt make financial sense to burn all that propane.
 
Back in 1974 I ran a 55 John Deere combine with a Year-Around cab on it , I think it would have been less dusty with no cab a all.
 
My first few years, about 5 I guess, 1944-1949, corn was cut with a McDeering binder and shocked, then after getting dry enough was husked and shredded with a Rosenthal. The ear corn was cribbed and the fodder blown into a mow in the barn for winter cow feed and bedding. We fed corn and cob meal in the dairy cow ration and shelled and ground corn to,the hogs and chickens in their ground feed rations. After that, 1950, corn was picked in the fields with a mounted 24 picker on our H Farmall and later a 2ME mounted on our Farmall Super MTA. No combining until,about 1975-1976.
 
Terms. When I was a young one, we "picked" cotton & "pulled" corn. The less hardy, "pulled" bowls. :wink:
 
here in Northern IN the seed companies are starting to pick but they usually push it i think
alot of guys are filling silo or have them filled

a bit early

no one shelling/combining yet.
 
A guy from Signeta said they pick the corn when it a little green so they don't damage the seeds.
 
Some local farmers have a different opinion. Pick it now and reduce the risk of a mold or fungus. Guess it's a crap shoot.

Don't know how dry the corn is, but I followed a semi from the field to town this morning. He was headed to the grain elevator.
 
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