Around here corn pickers in general were fading away in favor of combines with corn heads by the mid-1960's. Mounted pickers were never numerous around here I suspect due to most farms having dairy cows requiring a tractor being available daily to pull a manure spreader. Further, most farms at that time only had maybe one or two tractors with enough power to handle a picker or spreader. The equipment salesmen I knew figured the last generation mounted pickers sold very sparse like here in the lake plain region of NY (Auburn to Buffalo to either side of US 20). Maybe a couple units of JD 237 for each county along that corridor. Maybe a few more units total of IH 234 as a few were sold for sweet corn harvesting. Today it would be very difficult to find a mounted picker around here period. I've seen a couple of 227 pickers with old time area dealer stickers on them which tells me they were here since new. A recent conversation about the nearest JD dealer until the mid-1960's indicated that dealer sold a 226, a couple 227's, and one 237 which started its career down the road from me but is long gone. As to the question at hand I would guess production of new mounted pickers stopped during the mid-1970's. Perhaps New Idea produced one later as they were still in the picker business into the 1980's. I think that the last corn pickers period built by the major manufacturers happened during the late 1980's. I remember a co-worker from around that time rushing to his local NI dealer when he was informed production was ceasing to place an order for a NI 325. I would love to collect a JD 237 or IH 234 picker. For Grandpa Love there was the perfect Ford picker (602) for sale out by Buffalo, NY that had been shedded with less than 50 acres of use on it as of last fall. Don't know if it sold but have not seen it advertised this year.
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