Harvesting, picking ear corn with a 3 row picker (not a combine) 2023

Here is some video of the old school way. Picking ear corn with a 3 row picker, not using a combine.
Hope you enjoy.
Thanks for watching!

[vadmedia]

This video was a real treat. Thanks for making it so enjoyable!

[steverabideau]

Reminds me of a youth long passed.
Corn cribs and snow fence cleaning the cattle barn by hand with my cousins and Gramas great meals

[debdew]

Always enjoy your videos! Amazing how big those corn fields are! Thank you for sharing. Take care🍀

[debthill]

I remember those days when I was growing up on the farm

[tomcorcoran]

New subscriber from western New York! Great video! We pick a little corn for fun every fall and just acquired a 2 row new idea with a sheller, should be fun to run!

[danw]

The first farm I worked on was had about 40 milk cows and 500 sheep. What we didn't chop for silage we picked with a New Idea 324 picker that had a 12 roll hucking bed. Ear corn was ground for the cows. After the cribs were full we used another 324 with a shelling unit to shell off the remaining corn. We stored it in the chopper wagons, then we would line kicker wagons with plywood and fill a couple of them then we filled up all the gravity wagons we had. We used the shelled corn to feed out lambs. A lot of people would comment about how the New Idea pickers butt shelled corn especially if it was dry, but we didn't mind so much because we turned the sheep out on the corn fields after picking and they would find all of it. I can remember getting pretty damn cold after spending all day running the picker. We ran them with the Power shift 4020. I plant about 20 acres of my own corn for steers make pretty good side money from freezer beef, lambs, broilers and turkeys. I stuck with the New Idea 325 because they share parts with the 324. Those things are sitting all over the countryside in the fence rows. Plus I found a company that refurbishes New Idea pickers and says if they can't get parts from Agco they'll make them.

[clarencebosma]

I’d like to see the unload procedure as well

[tarabottogino]

Now, b w, my guess is that this is a baby combine. You said this machine is used for piking ear corn? I honestly don`t know what that is! Is it like the whole corn?

[keithkuckler]

I pulled a two row New Idea superpicker with the bigger husking bed with my 4020, that was a good rig, and could really handle the corn, Love this video.

[sarah_farm]

I just cant believe how they have access to just such a large variety of fruits, trees and plants. Feels like they live in paradise. Fresh produce right on their door step, surrounded by nature and enjoyed together in a close knit family and community! All the money in the world cant buy what they have.

[jimstewart]

Next year please include the storing of the ear corn too, thanks.

[eddiefralix]

What brand picker ? Is there a market still for ear corn ?

[MorganOtt-neqj]

I had the chance for a JD300 with 3 row head, wishing I had bought it now.

[jameskelley]

36" rows? if so, can you populate to compete with what 30" rows put out?

[geoffhirsh]

Why emptying into another cart? Travels down the road better?