Posted by JD Seller on October 12, 2016 at 19:37:00 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: Picking corn posted by MNfarmboy83 on October 12, 2016 at 15:34:45:
The reason for corn cribs is to air dry the corn. So picking the corn and leaving it in the wagons is NOT the thing to do. There is little air movement in a wagon. So your high moisture corn will rot/mold in the wagon. The little bit of weathering you see in the crib is a small percentage of the total weight in the crib. The rain that would blowing will not raise the moisture content very much at all. The moisture content is the INTERNAL moisture not what is on the out side of the kernel. Once the internal moisture is low it is darn hard to make it wet again.
When I was still picking I started as soon as the corn was under 20%. IF the ear where shelling to bad I would pick in the evening and mornings. This the husk was a little tighter and would help for less shelling. Adjust your picker's snapping roll spacing. Watch your speeds. I almost never ran at PTO speed, usually much slower. Your ground speed will effect the shelling to. Picking when it is too dry and frozen will increase the butt shelling.
New idea may have had the picker market but the snapping roll just about always shelled the butt some. Allis Chalmers and JD both had pickers that had stripper plates above the snapping rolls. This reduced the butt shelling to about zero.
So your basically doing the WRONG things when picking corn. Pick it while there is still some moisture in the ear to reduce butt shelling. THEN crib it ASAP to allow air flow to let it naturally dry. Try to minimize any shelled corn in the crib. It will limit air flow. This is why most chain elevators had screens/grates to allow the shelled corn to fall out.
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