Grinding corn for cows brings back memories 😊

thank you for sharing your story about working on a livestock farm

My dad had a one row New Idea picker when he started farming in 1959. Pulled it with a Farmall M. I rode in the trailer catching the ears!

Old school picker

It's nice he has the guts to switch the fingers for an auger. He must have a lot of knowledge to be confident in modifying machinery like that.

Hello everyone and Mackenzie and especially the moomoos too

Who would have “thunk” Old Relics of the Past still work and are used on the Farm ? Kevin! 😬👍

Ingenious, tx for sharing, blessings. Such a beautiful color golden yellow, no wonder the natives viewed it as gold.

Wow. That vidio. Brought. Back memories. That's how. We. Picked. Corn. In the. 1960s. Ronda. U always. Have. Awesome. Vidios. . thank u. . ur awesome.

Would have been great to see a tractor from the 50's pulling the picker great video keep them coming..

That Kevin is a regular MacGyver! He knows how to think outside the box and in doing so can pass it on to the boy's. The comments tell it all, we had one of those and never thought to modify it like that!!! Kudos to Kevin!!! And thank you Rhonda for all the great info on corn 🌽 and your ability to drive that drone and make all possible. God Bless you for your hard work, He love you and We love you too! What a Beautiful Family 👪 and a Blessing to your Viewers!! Thank you so much and be safe 🙏❤

Thanks for the video.. I still can remember the counts hours of picking corn. My favorite time of the year.. Nothing like the smell of the air of fresh picked corn

i remember picking corn on the family farm about 50 years ago

When I was about 12 years old I would help my neighbor with chores and one of those was to put ear corn into a corn "crib". He pulled a one row New Idea with an old H Farmall. Made for a long day but it got the job done. So been there done that. That was about 50 years ago. Slick modification on the picker. That is some good looking corn.

Hi 👋 ronda and Kevin that’s awesome video and drone and explain about corn 🌽 Kevin has lots brain storm ideas 💡 smart young man and has wonderful wife support and as always you and your families be safe lots of blessings to you all 🇺🇸🇺🇸

That picker reminds me of equipment we had growing up on the farm

Its a rare treat to see these in operation, and clever way to remake it like that, so that its still work :)

Great idea, Smart Farming cost savings is a good thing. Farmers are smart Engineers, Welders, Plummer’s, mechanics, environmentalists etc.

Nice job again Kevin love the drome work love u guys have a great week hope to watch u soon God bless you's

Good mod to the picker.

Used to have a rare 3 row new idea. Fun as hell as a kid.

Corn in our neck of the woods didn't do so well this year here in northern Ohio. One year dad was out picking corn with our single row picker and came upon a stalk that was 15 feet high with three ears. Of course, he pulled it out of the ground and brought it to the house and placed it alongside the garage. It stayed there for about four days. Those New Ideas were pretty popular back in the day.

Enjoy the knowledge that you and Kevin are sharing with us non farmers, it allows me to better understand what it takes to run your farm. Truly a great deal of work and dedication.

I remember picking corn! When the corn is dry it slides out the box a lot easier!

This brings back fond memories....I always enjoyed running the 323 picker....

Thanks for showing what goes into dairy farming. I in joy watching.

My dad had a 2 row new idea, we pulled it with a 706, I got to run it once!

in the early 60s my dad had a new 560 gas tractor with a 2 row mounted picker-when he came home at nite with his eye brows burned off we knew he had a rough day-that thing would catch fire in a heartbeat-chaff and gas fumes dont mix

that was a very neat video to watch you pick corn and grind it the cows will enjoy it

I love how Kevin and the boys put their brain's together and brainstorm new ideas and make new farm implements. Rhonda also cool how you explained the growing process, and your drone footage is top notch for sure. Another awesome video.

God Bless the farmers!

That brings back a lot of memories for me, we used to pick about a hundred acres of high moisture corn for the cows.. We had a new idea 708 uni harvester, with a four row head.

Good morning to the Clay Family... Thank you for Praying for my brother in-law... Dan is doing very well.. Rhonda we can't do anything with God Pray.. And do well in are life... Rhonda you and your Family are True Christian family😻.. I love watching all your Cool videos... And in joy seeing the kids having fun ... We lean a lot be watching are Parents... God bless the family of Clay😻😻

One roll at a time. That seems like an eternity when viewing from above. It appears that patience is a virtual necessity in the farming business. That's a trait I sometimes struggle with on a personal level. You two always amaze me by how you go about your business takin' one day at a time and pushing forward with a strategic plan. Have a great week!!

Definitly old equipment still being used today. Kevin did a good job of explaining the process. We took the chute of our wagons and used a corn rake to get the corn into the grinder. nice video

one row picker reminds me of my friends mom and dad operation went the we're running their dairy farm

brings back memories. lol

Hey Arces of Clay Family!👋 Great drone footage! Hope ya'll have a great week! Be safe and blessed! 😆❤👍

Awesome video.

I picked with a New Idea 323 picker for twenty some years.

Oh man please look after your safety guys I'm not paranoid but please get some PTO guards on your machines. Over the years there's been some horrific deaths and injuries here in West Wales. Please stay safe you're a wonderful family and ambassadors for agriculture and the family farm.

We used to pick corn for hog feed by hand when I was a young teenager. That's been a long time ago. 😁

That so cool

Nice job on the auger in the husking bed; seems to work fine. My uncle Ed picked our corn with his Farmall M pulling a 2-row New Idea picker in the late '50s. When he traded up to a new Farmall 400, he bought a 2-row mounted unit (probably a 2-MH). I always enjoyed hauling loads of ear corn to the crib with our AC WD-45. Thanks for bringing back so many wonderful farming memories.

IMPRESSIVE....

Still have our picker i bought first year out of high school 323 1 row new idea we picked 50 acers every fall first with a allis wd 45 then i bought an allis 180 good seat and power steering dad thougt we won the lottery used 2 flat rack hay wagons with grain sides until uncle got done then used his gravity boxes then i bought our own

Thanks. That is so cool!

Simply and efficiently way.

Growing up, we had a NI 2 row picker that we used for high moisture corn. We had a Farmhand Grinder/Blower that we would grind most of the loads and blow into our silo. But in the meantime, we had a McKee (?) 3pt mounted grinder/blower. We would grind a gravity box load and blow into an old chopper box next to the barn. Once we filled, leveled and opened the silo, we'd quit grinding into the chopper box. Now, all we do is earlage with our SP Harvester as well.

I did that back in the 70s three big round corn cribs

great video brings back a lot of memories thanks an god bless

Such a great family and such a smart man ! Kevin I could picture you and the boys on Shark Tank pitching ideas ! God Bless y’all from Texas , and god speed the kids ! Love y’all !!

Thank you for the video, thank you to the farmer !

Thanks for the video. Love the older equipment and your modifications

I think that short day is going to work good for your heifers and the ear corn 🌽 made good feed and thanks Rhonda and Kevin

That was an excellent explanation and view on Tar Spot on the corn leaves ....that will give my husband a good idea what to look for in the near future in his corn .

Awesome video 👍Aloha from Hawaii🤙😎🏝

WE LOVE NEW IDEAS :)

The first farm I worked on had 40 milk cows and 500 sheep. We filled a wooden crib 8×14×60 plus 3 or 4 wire cribs. We ran a 324 New Idea to pick and then we had another 324 with a shelling unit that we shelled corn for the sheep. We used a 4020 diesel power shift to run both pickers. We stored the shell corn in the chopper wagons, gravity wagons and kicker wagons lined with plywood.

Manufacturers built snapping units. I never saw one until we moved to Kentucky.

I remember going to the family farm when I was a kid... some of my best memories as a child. But time I was 13 my uncle stopped farming and rented the land to the neighbor. Now he passed away and one of his sons inherited the farm but lives 5 hours away and just lets it sit there for the most part as the people who were renting the land stopped paying. I'm here just crying at the fact it's not being put to use. I work 12hrs 7 days a week doing irrigation and would give it up to farm until my bones say nope and even then I'd still find a way.

That's the way we did all our corn in my younger days. We had a 2 row mounted picker on an old Farmall M

I am also running my new idea 1 row picker to pick corn to make dairy feed and was dreaming of a way to eliminate the husking rolls. Now I know !! Thank you so much.

Always a good watch, you do an excellent job explaining your farming. Thank you. Hope you have a productive season.

Hello & thank you both so much for sharing this video & today's corn lesson, please farm safe + Bless U all!

Hi Rhonda another great video blessings to you and family from New Zealand

Nice looking corn crop like the corn picker setup well done

The ending made me laugh, tough work on the farm and you got to have a little fun, but it keeps me coming back to watch.

Pretty good time with that old 323. Our last two or three 23s and now we have a 324 too row. We use your corn to feed our beef cattle here and we have a market for some for people to feed wildlife and so on so we still pick and shell both. In the fall we shell enough at the end of corn picking season 2 last through the winter and then to keep her food business going in the summertime and up until picking time will dry shell out of the crib with a portable sheller oh no we probably pick one we put through the combine still here

Don't see very many corn cribs these days, One person on the wagon shoveling into the crib and one in the crib shoveling it to the back. So much fun when we were kids Really nice video

Good stuff Ronda, Kevin and Sanders:):)

Kevin, you seem to be clipping right along with that 1 row picker. Great idea on the modification. The drone footage is great, Rhonda.

That was amazing what Kevin did to renovate that picker, I never have looked close at one before, but I know a lot of common sense engineering went into that, the ground corn should charge up the ration, what a great video, thanks

the markets are nuts, the supply chain is broken, the prices for anything is approaching or exceeding double freed costs, all I can say is thanks JOE. use what ya got and works, now if they don't ruin the cattle market but a few around here shut down and sold off with the drought and with the JOE screwing up things. That's the cleanest I ever told that story, thanks for sharing God Bless ya

Great video superb drone footage. Kevin has farm ingenuity. God bless this hard working family.

Hey young lady, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Hope you are having a wonderful day! (I hope I got that right)

Rhonda pink is your color. Kevin your corn picker does what you need. It's simple enough you can work on it. It's not self propelled one less engine and transmission to keep up!

I watched a lot of rows go through one of those, back in the day. That may even be a Parker grain wagon and that is what we had.

New Idea made a picker with out a hulking bed

Jippii and wow, nice job and awesome video again. More such videos. Greetings from Finland.

Great drone footage!

that brings back memories of stories my dad has told me and my grandparents and great grandparents thank you for the great videos

Looks like a fun job

Thanks for all the info about farming & crops! Keep up the great work! :))

Brings back memories when my sister & I would ride in the bin wagons while dad was picking corn with a New Idea picker.👍

My dad told me he used to walk beside a horse drawn wagon and picking the corn by hand in the 1920's . I remember my grandfather having a hand powered sheller I thought was fun in the late '50's early '60's . When I was working for a large custom farmer we used combines so luckily I never had to pick corn by hand unless it was just a little ..

I remember picking ear corn we had a two row picker we used a hay wagon with side boards and a false end gate

Hard work 💪

That’s husking better than my bosses 6-row uni-picker! We used to have a Devil of a time just getting wagons unloaded! We also kept plugging the shoots in the crib. He had a wood crib with a roof and storage between the cribs. It had several openings along the peak of the roof and several shoots built between the trusses. If you place the elevator just right, you could fill both sides at the same time.😎

Used to do the same using an old Massey Harris 33. Thanks for the video. Good Wishes to your family.

Hello,. Good morning., have a nice day.

WOW!!! That corn picker brought back memories!!! We had a 2-row pull-type New Idea corn picker that we pulled with a Farmall "M". We used flare-box wagons to put ear corn in. We never did graduate to gravity wagons. A few farmers in our area started using gravity wagons in the 70's. In the late 60's, we graduated to an Oliver 2-row pull-type corn picker pulled by an Oliver 1850 gas tractor. We never worried too much about getting the husk off the ear, because there is good nutritional value in the husk. We ground up the whole ear for feed for our Dairy cows and Black Angus cattle. Not to many farmers in my day had grain bins. We would mostly store ear corn in corn cribs. When it came time to shell corn to empty the cribs, we had a special corn shelling rig come in and shell the corn off the cob. It would separate the shelled corn, the corn cobs, and the husk. We hauled the shelled corn to the town elevator, the cobs were used for bedding, and the husks were used as a feed supplement for the cattle. Basically the same as turning the cattle out into the fields in the fall and winter, to graze on the residue.

Oh my.... does your son look like dad!!

The business acumen you guys exhibit in an ever changing market, the engineering and mechanical skills Keven and the boys posses, the hard work the entire family puts in to the homestead, all contribute to a shining example of the American dream at work and foretell of an operation that will become multigenerational. Blessing be on all of you🙏

I remember the day the dealer stopped by our farm pulling a brand new 323 to deliver to our neighbor down the road and my dad asked him if he had another one, he did and dad said he would cut him a check as soon as he could deliver it, that was so cool, one of the best machines we ever bought, dads gone now, I wish I could go back!

Don't know how I didn't find this one before. You and Kevin are just amazing. He removed the husking bed, Kevin sure is one smart fellow, pretty sure my dad had one with the husking bed still on it. Like Jimmy Jack said, brings back memories. Noticed y'all used a lot courser screen when you ground it. Probably what we should have done. I know we sure used to put a load on that old tractor. Thank you so much Rhonda. 😊

Great video!

Fascinating!

I have picked alot of corn with one of them lol bring back alot of memories

so peaceful out on the farm.