1 row corn picker prices...

Farmall43

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What is up with the price of 1 row corn pickers? The last 3-4 I have seen sell at auction have brought $600-$1100 depending on condition. I bought mine a number of years ago for less than $100 at an auction and it is still in just as good a condition now as it was then. Is there an increased need for ear corn that I don't know about? But seriously just wondered if anyone else had notices the overall increase in the sale price of older implements.
 
New Idea 323 pickers in nice shape bring $2000 here. Amish aren't far away and they want them. There seems to be a renewed interest in ear corn by guys who feed animals on a smaller scale, too. Couple that demand with the fact that there are fewer and fewer nice pickers out there and nobody is making new ones pushes the prices up. You couldn't give away a round metal crib around here 15 years ago but same thing, there aren't many left and there are enough guys wanting one that they get $400 or more now.
 
If JD 300 pickers are bringing scrap money but in good condition I will come out there and buy all I can to sell here.
 
I think another reason is that people like the one row because row width is not an issue as it would be with a 2 or 3 row. If you have a wide row picker, then you'll need to plant it wide row, unless you just pick one row at a time.
 
Does that mean my 1950's farming practice (I've got a 1-PR picker)is becoming modern. I brag to my friends all the time I would have the most modern farm around if were 1950.
 
Ear corn is bringing a premium around here since the state allows baiting for deer. A friend just bought one and we rebuilt the pto shaft recently.
It was a New Idea. I think he paid about $800.
Richard in NW SC
 
There's still a few of us small guys around that pick there corn and put it in a crib. Grind it and feed their animals. It still makes more sense than shelling it and having to figure out how to dry it so you can store it.
The one row works better as you are not restricted to a certain row width. Also pickers haven't been made for some time now so they are becoming fewer and fewer driving the price up.
I haven't seen a working picker sell for much less than a grand in the last few years. I paid 100 bucks 25 years ago for a 323 NI. I replaced it for another 323 about four years ago for 300 bucks. I saw it on CL and couldn't get over there quick enough in the pouring rain to close the deal and bring it home.
 
We have two reasons that those pickers are on the rise in our area. Increased number of smaller operations that are raising organic corn. The other is that the Old Order Amish have now adapted to the use of corn pickers. They prefer those lighter one row pickers or New Idea 2 row. Not much demand for those heavy John Deere 2 row units
 
I more or less last month gave away my 1 row IHC 1950s picker for $65. I paid $50 for it 25yrs ago. It was in fine working shape, just had the snouts shot on it. This in NE Okla
 
I used and still have my first picker , The same model my grandfather used behind a 1952 8N ford and i used behind a wd allis . A New Idea #7 one row. I liked everything but the fam speed and the shelling in the row. I upgraded to a NI 325 with 8 roll husking bed and paid for it in 2-3 years on the shelled corn savings. I figured the #7 lost an average of 14-15 bpa due to shelling in the old style snapping rolls. I am on 30 inch rows but bought a wd45 ac with a mounted ford dearborn picker I'd love to use / I might just take my old 2 row planter and move it to 36 inch rows.
 

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