Posted by LonM on September 21, 2020 at 05:05:57 from (64.118.3.165):
In Reply to: ear corn ? posted by swindave on September 20, 2020 at 05:41:43:
We still pick around 40 acres of corn each year. Currently running a New Idea 702 Uni with 2 row head and 12 roll husking bed. Pick into a gravity box or barge boxes. Elevator is a Kewanee 500, filling round wire cribs or piling between two rows of hay bales. We ferry wagons with a 3020 diesel, and power the elevator with a Farmall H.
Grind all of it through a Lorenz grinder mixer and feed weaned calves and fat cattle with it.
I don't know of anyone else around who still picks more than a few wagon loads per year, but we like it. Parts for the Uni are getting hard to find, so we will likely move over to chopping earlage or high-moisture shelled corn in a few years.
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