New Idea Corn Picker....

[Grateful11]

My cousin's are still using their 2-row New Idea picker. Gotta be at least 30 years runnin', now.

Think they've got it hooked up to a Case/IH 8620... gotta be 155hp or so!

They still feed whole ear corn to their stock cows - drive along in the pasture and string out a line of ear corn. Cows buckin' and runnin' and kickin' in the air to get to that corn!

AKfish

They don't run the ear corn through a hammer mill? Wife and son run all their ear corn, oats and high protein pellet through a CaseIH 1250 Grinder Mixer. Never seen a cow eat whole ears of corn.

[kneedeep]

Back in the early 80's I worked on a cattle / cotton farm in Selma, AL for 3 years. We raised about 75 acres of corn, cut 1/2 for silage (w/100 acres of millet) and picked the rest for grinding dry feed. we would take broken ear corn and use it to "bait" the cows from pasture to pasture. Those old Santa Gerts mama cows would get a ear of corn in their mouth, roll it around with a foot long tongue rasping the kernels off and spit the cob out! They would chase the pickup truck to whatever field we wanted em in for a ear of corn! The owner could never understand why those cows always charged up on the truck every time he drove in a pasture!

good old days!!