Posted by NY 986 on October 12, 2016 at 17:57:56 from (184.53.48.34):
In Reply to: Re: Picking corn posted by MNfarmboy83 on October 12, 2016 at 17:38:32:
You are kind of stuck then. As stated before the seed companies are generally not breeding corn for picking using the older style pickers. Some varieties have field loss issues as the corn drops in to the teens moisture-wise with modern combine heads. I suppose if you had several thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket a picker upgrade would be easy to swallow. If your field losses were around 50 percent which is not unheard off then on a 150 bushel dried shelled yield basis per acre would equal 75 bushels multiplied by 7 acres equals 525 bushels then multiplied by 3.50 per bushel equals 1837.50 dollars. Over ten years that would be 18,375 dollars so a picker upgrade does not look absurd even figuring it will need maintenance over that ten year period. So maybe you are not as stuck as I first thought. Further, a clean field means a far smaller issue with volunteer corn.
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