Posted by NY 986 on October 13, 2016 at 06:00:05 from (184.53.49.252):
In Reply to: Re: Picking corn posted by JD Seller on October 12, 2016 at 19:37:00:
The thing I would worry about is even if you got the jist of the current variety with the old picker that the seed company would discontinue the old variety then you have to learn the hard way all over again. The seed companies are good at discontinuing varieties that work for me in terms of adaptability to the soil and so forth. The Amish here do not even fool with pickers as the losses are too much for even them. The NK rep from back in the 1970's maintained that the research went away during the early 1970's in terms of varieties that worked well with the older pickers. By the time I was old enough to care which was the late 1970's he was down to holdovers to sell to his picker customers even though those varieties no longer were leaders in yield when figured on a dry shelled per acre basis. When the Mennonites started showing up in mass they were still using NI pickers but again the losses were too much to sustain so they went to an alternative. Most were planting small grains so they went and got three or four row combines as those machines had fallen out of favor thus lowering their retail price.
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