Corn Harvesting October 2002

When the corn is hard and dry in late October or November,

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a Combine is used to cut the corn. It also removes the corn from the cob and stores it until it is loaded in a dump truck.

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The Dump truck carries the corn to the silo where it will be stored to sell or for animal feed.

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 An Auger is hooked up to a tractor to move the corn up a long chute to the top of the silo where it is dumped inside. Sometimes adjustments must be made to get the corn where you want it inside the silo.

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Don volunteered to go to the top to make sure it was falling correctly.