Harvesting Corn

Farm Tales and Cow Pies · Apr 2, 2025 · 21m

Blest be the ties that bind…and shred and pick corn during Farm Tale days! USDA

predicts a record corn crop for 2025. But domestic use and exports were definitely not

what we thought about as the corn picker parade rattled and banged down the field

driveway.

Join Dan and Daryl as they look back at corn harvest during the Baby Boomer years.

Scoop shovels, portable (not so much) elevators, and a corn crib (why crib?) were the

tools of the day. A 24 row corn head wasn’t even on the horizon as we pulled another

load of ear corn home behind the Farmall “H”. And don’t…