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Kettle River, MN | We have friends south of st cloud that still pick quite a bit. Everything for the livestock is ear corn. The calves do get shelled corn in their feed mix until they are a few months old. They have 50 milk cows and raise all their own replacements. Steers are finished to about 1400 lbs. They have two round cribs and one rectangle cribs that is about 80 ft long. Then they pile a lot of corn against the rectangle crib. To grind the piled stuff they load into a gravity box with a loader so there is less shoveling. They pick with a 4 row uni harvester they bought from a seed company that they work with from time to time.
Only trouble I see with it is the labor, there still is quite a few kids on the farm and once they are gone it is possible that the amount of ear corn picked will change. | |
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does anybody still pick earcorn
