One way corn was harvested in the early twentieth century was cutting the entire plant and bundling it. These bundles are often placed in shocks which are symbolic of fall harvest. In this video the bundles are brought in from the field to have the ears separated from the fodder. The ears of corn are then stored in cribs until the grain is shelled from the cob.
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Picking Corn.mp4
The most common way of harvesting corn was to remove the ear from the stalk leaving the stalk in the field. This was done by hand until machines were developed. Until then; the amount of corn planted was dependent upon the amount of labor available to harvest. The ears are then moved to storag...
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Shelling Corn.mp4
Once the corn has dried sufficiently to be stored as grain, or sold, or fed to livestock; it is shelled. These machines take grain from storage in cribs and separate the grain from the cob and husks.
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Combines.mp4
The combined harvester cuts the plant and separates the grain from the plant material in one operation. Some combines are pulled by tractors and some are autonomous self propelled machines. They are much faster and more efficient than previous forms of harvest, but the farmer must be aware of t...
