What did you do with the corn after you loaded it into the truck?
Also, a question for anyone who has picked ear corn this fall - do you have mold on the kernels this year? Around here (SW Minnesota) our corn has some mold on it. After you shell it most of it rubs off the kernels. But before shelling it varies from a few mold spots on the sides of the kernel that you can't see until you break an ear in half, to having mold visible in the rows between the kernels. This is either a blue/black mold or a white mold. The crop insurance people told me that they have tested several samples of it in this area and none of it it the toxic kind. I was planning on picking about 2000 bushels of ear corn again this year but I don't want to take a chance of putting ears with that mold on them in a crib and having it cause the whole crib to spoil before it has a chance to dry down over the winter into next year.
We have the same problem. Sounds like it's happening all over the midwest. Does the corn have a weird smell? I picked a little patch of corn at my parents place and it had a fair amount of mold on it. Today I combined a little at my grandparents and there are just spots of mold on the kernels. The corn sure smelled funky when we dumped it on the wagon. I set up a little pickett crib earlier this fall. Last weekend I put some scrap wood down for a floor. I'm about ready to put ear corn in it; do you think I should just wait or take a chance and fill it? Cool pics also. Does the truck unload easy?
how was the yield this year in the wide rows? What populations did you plant and have at harvest time?What did the narrow row fields yield around you ?. Debating whether to put out my whole field next year in wide rows or just do the outer rows in wide so i can use my mounted picker to open up the field and finish with the one row. thanks ,tim
Yeah, if I grab a handfull of wet shelled corn out of the wagon this year and smell it, it smells moldy and about makes you sick. After it has gone thru the dryer and several augers along the way, most of the mold spots have been rubbed off and it smells better but still not like "normal" corn. I'm not going to pick any ear corn this year because of this (although I'd really like to). Since I already had the gathering unit mounted on the tractor, I mounted up the sheller unit this year instead of the husking bed. I hope to try it out in the next few days and I'll get some pictures and post them here for all to enjoy.
