Corn Pickers, what are you guys doing with cob corn

michaelr · Sep 26, 2017

I see so many corn pickers still for sale. What are people using them for? To pick corn, I get that =) But I am not aware of what they are doing with cob corn?

gene bender · Sep 26, 2017

ground ear corn is an excellent feed for fat cattle

ss55 · Sep 26, 2017

Years ago, dry corn cobs were used as livestock bedding, furnace fuel and fire kindling in coal stoves.

F-Dean · Sep 26, 2017

Corn cobs (By-Product of ear corn) is a major ingredient of women's cosmetics.
Pigs love ear corn.

cuby · Sep 26, 2017

I did a lot of that with a Letz burr grinder.

Charlie M · Sep 26, 2017

I grind them for bedding. When I worked in a feed mill in the early 70's we sold ground cobs for bedding by the truck loads.

rustyfarmall · Sep 26, 2017

Ground corncobs with some molasses applied will keep the cows happy with no chance of overeating. Kind of a substitute for hay, but still needs to be supplemented with nutritional feed.

michaelr · Sep 26, 2017

Miss Piggy comes to mind from the muppets.

moll · Sep 26, 2017

We shell ears at the show, corn goes to the elevator for club money.

used red MN · Sep 26, 2017

And artificial coconut flakes for some mass produced sweet treats! Lol. Sad, but true.

jdr1943 · Sep 26, 2017

Old folks used them cobs when they didn't have a sears catalog in the outhouse.

cool hand · Sep 26, 2017

Neighbor sells a lot of ear corn to the Amish--both whole and ground.

M Nut · Sep 26, 2017

Grind it with an oat and hay ration for feeder cattle feed. Works great for us.

DoubleR · Sep 26, 2017

Run it through the grinder mixer and fatten cattle. Old School

jeffcat · Sep 26, 2017

Also in the pet store. Natures miracle cat litter is ground cob with a deodorizer in it. My cats like it just fine.

BarnyardEngineering · Sep 27, 2017

If they're so blasted valuable, then why are 99.999999999% of them shot out of the back of a combine every fall?

The way y'all talk, ground ear corn has 10X the feed value of shelled corn. John Deere should be manufacturing giant 16-row corn pickers, and they should be selling like hotcakes.

There's so much value in the cob it should more than offset the cost of additional equipment and the slight additional hassle of handling ear corn...

F-Dean · Sep 27, 2017

My dad used 2 cobs a day into his 90s!

Destroked 450 · Sep 27, 2017

A large portion of the corn harvested each year is used for human consumption, breakfast cereal, corn syrup, margarine, then their's ethanol fuel.
None of those use the cob and a large portion of animal feed is made without the cob.

I pick corn on the ear, I run it through my grinder mixer for cattle feed, the cob has no food value and is only used as a filler.

I have a cousin that works for a major seed company, he said that all of their seed corn is picked on the ear and shelled off later.
I don't know the reason for it but that's how they do it as I've been told, the left over cob from that process is probably want ends up in makeup and such.

As for the corn cob crack wipers, bedding, heating fuel and fire starters, most of that is day's long past.

Jim Becker · Sep 27, 2017

(quoted from post at 10:39:37 09/27/17) . . . I have a cousin that works for a major seed company, he said that all of their seed corn is picked on the ear and shelled off later.
I don't know the reason for it but that's how they do it as I've been told, the left over cob from that process is probably want ends up in makeup and such. . . .

Just a guess, but maybe letting the corn continue drying on the cob and shelling later improves the viability of the kernels as live seeds.

caterpillar guy · Oct 5, 2017

Ground ear corn improves the butterfat test in milk production. When we used to run out and had to use shelled dry corn the test would drop off some. As soon as we went back to the high moisture ground ear corn it would go back up again.
The Anderson's in Toledo OH used to have a cob premium of ear corn cobs when you sold corn there.

fixerupper · Oct 5, 2017

(quoted from post at 11:18:18 09/26/17)
Ground corncobs with some molasses applied will keep the cows happy with no chance of overeating. Kind of a substitute for hay, but still needs to be supplemented with nutritional feed.

Rusty, please don't mention ground corn cobs. Now I'm going to itch for the rest of the night! LOL.

I used to grind cobs for farrowing crate bedding. It was a very absorbent material but dusty. Some farmers claimed the cobs were too abrasive for the little pigs but I didn't have any problems.

daveking95 · Oct 8, 2017

City people are buying them by the sackful, to feed to the dang squirrels in their yards. Places like nurseries and farm/feed stores sell ear corn to feed the squirrels.

Russell Moore · Oct 8, 2017

We sell a lot of cob corn to deer hunters around here in NC
We put it in the same bags that 50# of shelled goes in
Farmer a county over claims he is selling up to 900 bags a weeks of it now
Last week I had a couple drive an hour to buy some for squirrels

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