For those of you that have pickers and still use them how many acres or bu. do you pick in a year. Most years I will pick 2 1000 bu cribs full. We grind this corn for your cows.
We plant about 60 acres each year, all picked. We grind it also for the dairy cows. Usually, I open the field up with my 234 and dad picks the rest with the NI 2 RN. We plant the headlands to 38" rows. Good topic BTW
Not too many years ago we picked ALL our corn with a 234: 200-300+ acres worth. Filled the 20x70 with HMEC ground with a Gehl 99 recutter, and put extra in three 1000 bushel cribs. Just at that is over 30,000 bushel. What a phenominal harvesting machine.
there is a guy around here that up till like 5 years ago picked and shell 45000 bu a year he picked with a jd 300 3 row narrow with a white 2-105 on it he rented about every pole crib that was left in the county. i helped him alot pulling wagons with the 770 oliver had the ac wd-45 on a 500 elevator o the good old days now he dont have noth but deeres and combines everything and grain trucks
I pick about ten acres every year to put in a couple of corn cribs to grind as calf feed. I pick with a NI 309 snapper and got 4 wagons that I use. I pull the the picker with a MF 275 tractor. I like to one day get a NI 325 picker. Plant with a AC 333 four row planter on 30 inch spacing.
at golombeski farms we only plant corn every other year but when we do we plant 42 acres and shell all out but used to raise steers so had corn every year for grinding but now that we just cash crop we plant beans one year and corn the next we run are 560 or 806 on 323 i believe it is not for sure and have 13 wagons for picking in saves a alot of time when u can pick all day and just fill wagons can get alot dont cuz we have to hual any were depending where we are filling cuz we fill cribs on two farms and the farms are around 4 miles apart one way and the ground is any where from 5 to 10 miles from the second farm that we fill at so just havin all them wagons one guy can get alot done in one day
For two years I planted 100 acres to pick for the picking show,and we picked all of it last year and 75% the year before. I just picked with the NI 325 2 NR this year about 7-8 acres to fill a 2000 bu. wire crib.
I pick about 100 ac. sell alot to deer hunters keep some to grind for cow's and hog's . Picked with a 400 case with mounted n.i. but i got me a 709 uni with a 4 row header love it don't got to eat all the dust now!!!
Picked only about 8 acres this year. Picked most of it with a JD 300 with 2 row head. For fun also picked with a JD 200, Blackhawk 1 row, and a Case 2 row snapper with a side elevator. Most of the corn will be bagged up and sold to local stores for "critters". Have a great year! CornPickerBob
