Picking Corn.mp4
Harvesting Corn
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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 storage in a crib until the grain is removed from the cob to sell or to feed livestock.
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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...
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Payday! Corn Harvest 2019
This field of approximately 125 acres of irrigated corn yielding in excess of 10,000 pounds of grain per acre is harvested in less than a day using modern machines. Each wagon requires a 200 horsepower tractor and is capable of holding 25 tons of grain. Enough grain to fill an 18 wheeler.
