Need something made to sort seed corn.

google something called "graders". I"m picturing something long, cylindrical.....about a foot in dia, 4 feet long. Other than that, I got nuthin"
 
On the ear it was easy, shell off the ends about 1-1/2 in, the rest of the center was used for seed. If it's already shelled, I don't know.
 
I have a corn sheller with what my dad called a nubber on it to shell the grain off the ends of the ears. Not using the end grains, plus throwing out ears with weird shaped grains on them seems to work out ok. What variety of corn are you growing?
 
Im Thinking of planting Wapsie Valley OP corn

To shell off the ends, Id have to hold the ear into the sheller. Ive already lost parts of 2 fingers on my L hand, Not gonna lose more. My uncle lost an tip end of his finger from doing something like that.
 
Hand seed corn grader , Graded both medium Flats & medium Rounds.. My family used it for years, on Open pollinated seed corn...
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I have one of those, how does it work??

Did it grade both med flats and rounds together? If so, id still have to separate them, which is a form of grading. Does yours have markings telling what it will grade/separate?
 
If you wanted to get different grades then you had a different one of those screens for each grade you wanted. first after hand shelling, no sheller used as it would dammage the kernel making it unfit to plant you would use one screen to get out what would fit thru that screen by shaking it by hand and putting the seed that would not go thru in seperate container, when you got done with that grade then you picked a screen with different size slots to do the next grade. That is after hand shelling the round kernels off the ends and if you wanted to plant rounds as well as flats you shelled the small round kernels of the tip end into one bucket and the large round kernels off the but end into a different bucket. By doing that you only had a small percentage that you had to run over the screen. Most that would have done that planting of home raised corn had done it long enough to be able to just look at an ear and seperate it into a half dozen grades in a half dozen buckets just by sight. There were commercial seed graders that used the same type of screen that the hand held one shown but made in combination so the extra small kernels would drop out first, then the small kernels, then the medium kernels, then the large kernels and then the extra large kernels. Most would not want the round, small or large kernels as it was thought they did not have the viger to make a good plant. Growing up we had the ear drying racks here yet but by that time was planting hybred seed. I have shelled and planted hybred seed using the eyesight method for replanting late corn that had dround out and no seed avaible for replanting.. It just made it to the roasting ear stage but the hogs sure loved it when turned into field.
 
Greenman, Does your grader have any info on it as to what size corn the screen will grade? I want to plant either med flats OR lg flats. I have a 204? IHC planter with all the size plates for it including milo and soybean.
 

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