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Cheap Sweet corn picker Ideas

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RyanOregon

11-18-2004 20:16:10




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Since the New Idea pickers are too brutal on corn I need an idea for something to harvest sweet corn with something other than my two hands. I only have 10 acres and need something inexpensive. Any suggestions?




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Mark

11-20-2004 09:52:02




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 Re: Cheap Sweet corn picker Ideas in reply to RyanOregon, 11-18-2004 20:16:10  
This sort of reminds me of a question I posed for a green bean picker.....what was recommended cost about $8,000! That is the sad thing about the small truck farmer, the damned machinery exceeds the value of the crop and the hand labor is either non existant and/or too expensive as well. If you are going to truck farm, be prepared to work like a brute, forget your labor having any value and be prepared to deal with a bunch of slickers expecting the hayseed (you) to all but give them your crop.

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tim[in]

11-19-2004 09:12:49




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 Re: Cheap Sweet corn picker Ideas in reply to RyanOregon, 11-18-2004 20:16:10  
when we sold sweet corn one woman walked along stripping ears off the stalk. peeled each one back stuck her fingernail in each one , handed them to my mom and said , oh i didnt want those"! my mom said," you bought them!!!!" lol afriend in northern indiana sells about 10 acres a year . he hires pickers and sells mostly thru a roadside market.sometimes on eaby there will be a one row sweetcorn picker for sale . the last one about $5000.oo. there was an attachment for old allis chalmers mounted picker so you could pick sweetcorn with those.. nothing new tho. i would put a few stripped ears where the customers can 'play' with them and keep the rest behind me so if they "decide " they want some you can select it and sack it for them. the further people get from their food supply and more stupid ideas they get from tv , the worse they will get. just like the ones who like in the car commercials go from the high speed lane to the ramps in one move! most of the time i think i would rather feed it to the pigs! lol good luck and take plenty of prozac!

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Indydirtfarmer

11-19-2004 04:05:28




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 Re: Cheap Sweet corn picker Ideas in reply to RyanOregon, 11-18-2004 20:16:10  
MEXICANS?



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Michael Soldan

11-19-2004 06:38:33




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 Re: Cheap Sweet corn picker Ideas in reply to Indydirtfarmer, 11-19-2004 04:05:28  
Hah, hah,hah,hah..I wasn't expecting that answer! You Devil...Indydirtfarmer...anyway Ryan's original question..hand picking sweet corn for sale is about the only solution I know, damaged cobs don't sell. It used to tick me off that I would pick sweet corn at its peak and put it out at the road and people would still rip each cob open to see that it was ok..once had a couple in a big expensive car stop and they were there for 20 minutes picking over the corn..$40,000 car and they are making a $2 purchase,,,I'll bet it didn't take them that long to buy the car. People don't get it...I am the expert at the sweet corn crop, as it nears ready I check everyday, when the harvest begins, I pick in pails and when I put it out on the trailer I check every few cobs by peeling back only enough to see the colour and texture of the kernel, My reputation is on the line and yet people figure if they don't look they might be taken, they'll ruin 2 dozen cobs to buy a dozen..unless I am standing there...I get a lot of repeat cottage trade so it must be good....I wish I could sell cattle like that...Mike in Exeter Ontario

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kyhayman

11-19-2004 07:10:55




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 Re: Cheap Sweet corn picker Ideas in reply to Michael Soldan, 11-19-2004 06:38:33  
One of my friends is 'serious' about sweet corn. He had a a couple of acres that the sprayer missed a row on and wound up with serious ear worm problems. He was shucking and trimming the ends (chop with a meat cleaver) and then wrapped in plastic. Selling a a discount for a while. Before long he noticed that this corn was outselling his 'still in shuck' corn. At the end of the season when corn was bringing $1.50 a dozen the shucked and wrapped corn was bringing $1.50 for 3 ears.

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