In my past experience it works pretty good. Several years ago I was custom planting for a neighbor and he ran out of seed (underestimated his acreage), sold him a bag of seed I had left over. Ran out again, so he went to the corn crib and started hand shelling some ears. By the time we got the field done, him and his wife must have shelled a bushel or so seed from the crib. When it came up you couldn't tell much difference in the corn, he thought when he picked it that fall it yielded better than any of the bought seed. I was using a finger pickup (JD 7000) planter so sizing for a plate wasn't a big concern.
I did same thing a couple years ago for a variety that was no longer available. Did a germination test myself - was about 98%. Only problem is if the corn your going to use was mechanically shelled (combine or sheller) you need to get any cracked kernels out or you will have skips. Cracked grain won't grow. Awfully hard to get all the cracked grain out with a standard cleaner. Even with some skips that field had a respectful yield.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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