Corn husks in the crib

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rrlund

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• Nov 5, 2009

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Does anybody know if there's any truth to what Allis Chalmers salesmen used to claim when they were trying to sell corn pickers without husking beds? They claimed that when the husks were left on,they would act like a wic and pull the moisture out of the corn in the crib. The reason I ask,I've got a variety of NK corn here that I can't get the husks off of for love nor money. There was 16 rows of Fielders Chioce on the north side of the field that picked clean as a hounds tooth,but I'm putting this stuff in a narrow crib and you can barely see any yellow. It's all husk. Darndest looking mess I've ever cribbed.

 

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Tractor,Tractor

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• Nov 5, 2009

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I remember when I was a kid that they wanted the husk off too keep it from molding. Remember pulling husk off corn from the crip and it usually had molded.

 

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Tractor,Tractor

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• Nov 5, 2009

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I remember when I was a kid that they wanted the husk off too keep it from molding. Remember pulling husk off corn from the crip and it usually had molded.

 

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Case e

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• Nov 5, 2009

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They used to advertise to livestock feeders about leaving the husks on for more feed. I think I have a woods bros advertisement somewhere with husking and non husking bed pickers.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Nov 5, 2009

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those old AC pickers put more trash than corn in the wagon, sounds like a salesman excuse, anybody that ever cribbed including me want the husk off so it dries better, I would say wait until it gets tough but if the other variety picked clean that may not be the answer.

 

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rrlund

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• Nov 5, 2009

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It doesn't matter what time of day I pick it. Started out in the morning yestrday and today. Had a pretty good wind and some sun today,no difference when it got drier this afternoon. Guess I'm gonna have a crib full of trash. I know better than plant that number of NK again next year. Never saw anything like it. Reminds me of a Pioneer variety that a friend was telling me about one time. Said he couldn't shell it. The kernels wouldn't come loose from the cob. He said you could set the concaves right down as tight as they would go and all it did was grind the cob and leave the kernels on the pieces. Said you couldn't knock them off with a hammer. That's the way these husks are. You could dislocate a shoulder trying to pull them off.

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Nov 5, 2009

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No, it won't "act like a wick"- it'll keep the corn from drying, and it'll mold.

 

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rrlund

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• Nov 5, 2009

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Guess I'll have to pray for freezing weather and risk it. Gotta do something with it. I'm putting it in a long narrow crib. We'll see.

 

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bradley martin

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• Nov 5, 2009

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With corn being high in moisture this year, I think you are asking for big trouble putting it in the crib. Give it some time and pick it when husks are wet,

 

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John Harmon

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• Nov 5, 2009

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Around where I come from back in the '60's a saying used to go around when the subject of an AC Mounted Picker came up," It was a tenant farmers with Livestocks best friend" I had one of those junk pickers for all of about 3 weeks once. It left so much corn behind it I had to quit useing it and go find another picker right in the middle of harvest.The only thing I could find was a new Ford picker to mount on my D17. Now there was a corn picker.That ford was the best picker I ever had.

 

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Leroy

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• Nov 5, 2009

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It sounds like you got a variety that should have said in description for shell only with the tight husks. The varieties for picking will say good for picking and all will be harder to shell so the kernals do not get lost in the field and also will have a loose husk for clean husking and on those varieties 90% of the husks will come off in the snapping rolls, without going to the husking rolls.

 

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rrlund

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• Nov 5, 2009

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With this stuff,that's like baling tough hay. Those husks ain't coming off and I'm not leaving it to get burried in the snow.

 

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flying belgian

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• Nov 5, 2009

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Do you need ear corn? Other wise set up the sheller and haul it to town.

 

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rrlund

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• Nov 6, 2009

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Yes,I grind and feed all of it. Can't spare any.

 

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INCase

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• Nov 6, 2009

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Uncle used to have trouble with the corn shelling too easy when picking and loosing it in the field and making a big pile at the elevator. Would get almost a wagon load of shelled corn after the cribs were filled.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Nov 6, 2009

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if dad had some corn he thought might not keep he strung it out on sod and ground it first and fed it.

 

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730 virgil

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IL Wis state line near Monroe Wi

• Nov 6, 2009

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a man i know had very wet corn one year. fall was about like this very wet. sometimes had 2 tractors in front of corn picker to get thru the mud.
couldn't get the husks off of corn about middle of march he starting pushing the corn to his dairy cows to get corn fed up before weather got to warm as it was so wet he knew it wouldn't keep

 

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scot in pa

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• Nov 7, 2009

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We had a round wire crib, and a tractor sat around the clock running the blower to push air through it for a week, maybe two sometimes, after the crib was filled.

 

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Mn Dave

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• Nov 7, 2009

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You might be all right with the corn in a narrow crib, say 5 ft. wide. It also depends on the moist. of the corn. You don't want to pile it up in a round crib. I pick 3 big round cribs of ear corn each year to feed my fat cattle out, but maybe not this year unless the corn gets down to 23% or less. Might have to grind them shelled corn and add some buffer either oats or grind some hay in with it until they get used to it.

It's been a beach of a fall so far.