[AT] garden question; potatoes

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sun Jun 23 09:41:46 PDT 2013


I never saw the rig I talked about earlier.
I have no idea what it looked like.
As this thread goes on I'm remembering more.
I was trying to figure out why it was that he only
had about 100 acres down when he grows a lot more
corn than that and just now it came to me.  It was just
one variety of corn that blew down.  It was something new
he was trying.  All of the rest of his crop was still standing,
tangled but in relatively good shape.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Al Jones
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 11:52 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] garden question; potatoes


http://www.cornsaver.com/cornsaver/Frame-7-caseihpage7.html?refresh=1219677853534

There are two basic types, the one in the link above, which IMO is more 
effective, and another style that is more like the reel on a grain header. 
The last time we had down corn the guy doing our harvesting found the reel 
type just about useless.

Also found out when harvest is done, the best thing to do is either part out 
or trade the combine in, or be ready to replace a lot of parts before next 
year.  They drag in a LOT of dirt.

Al



-----Original Message-----
>From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
>Sent: Jun 23, 2013 8:34 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] garden question; potatoes
>
>I've seen something in catalogs that bolted to corn heads that was supposed
>to help feed downed corn into the header. I can understand his problem, we
>used to raise a couple acres for harvesting with a picker to sell as ear
>corn. We got hit with a hurricane one September and it went pretty flat, 
>but
>not as bad as to what you are referring. We had to pick it in one direction
>so it was leaning into the picker. If the snout ever got under the stalk it
>fed in just fine. Took forever to pick since we could only pick in one
>direction.
>
>John
>
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: charlie hill
>Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 7:49 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] garden question; potatoes
>
>John,  I read an article recently about corn.
>It seems that it is one of the most modified plants in agriculture.
>It started out as what amounted to a grass with just a few grains
>on it somewhere in Mexico or that area and has been selectively
>bred over 100's of years to what we have today.  I don't know if it's true
>or not but the article implied that  corn could not survive in the wild
>without
>continuous cross breeding by the seed farms.  It would revert to
>it's origins and be useless as a crop.
>
>Speaking of a tangled mess on the ground.  A few years back when I was
>dabbling in adjusting Federal Crop Insurance a farmer near here who farmed
>about 4000 acres had some flat planted (no rows) corn that got blown down 
>by
>an early hurricane.  He had I guess 100 acres like that or more.   He 
>called
>me
>to look at it but he told me he was going to try to get it up.   When I saw
>it
>it was laying as flat on the ground as if you had cut the stalks off with a
>cycle bar
>mower.  Some of the ears of corn that were touching the ground were
>sprouting.
>He had new combines with some sort of head that would work right down on 
>the
>ground.
>He called me later and told me he got it up and didn't loose enough to file
>a claim on the
>loss.   He ran both JD and IH equipment.  I think those combines were JD.
>
>Charlie
>
>
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
>Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 10:19 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] garden question; potatoes
>
>I would think all seed have been bred for certain qualities. Back in the
>'80's I ordered some open pollinated field corn from a place in South
>Carolina. After planting it I can see why we prefer hybrids. Some of the
>ears were 8ft up in the air and by the time it was ready to combine, the
>stalks were so weak they were breaking resulting in a tangled mess and a 
>lot
>of missed corn.
>
>John Hall
>
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Richard Fink Sr
>Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 3:45 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] garden question; potatoes
>
>I have what may be a real dumb question. In organic farming how is it
>organic if using a hybrid seed. Or one that has been made to be better[
>witch means to me screwed with]  Charlie ain,t that what is to fix any
>problem throw money at it????????
>R Fink
>PA
>
>
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