2012 Corn Harvest

Kale Avenue

Clayton County, Iowa

This Blog Post will feature a series of random views of the Corn Harvest.  Some of the pictures were taken from inside the Cab of the Harvester.  You can quickly see that this Farm Operation features John Deere Implements.  The principal operator is also an employee of the John Deere Dubuque Tractor Works.

He also happens to be my Nephew.  I received these pictures from my Sister-In-Law.

 This pictures features a future farmer in training. 

 Please note that this Corn Header has been outfitted with special equipment to assist in the harvest of the corn which was almost laid down during a storm in late July 2012.

Corn Drying Equipment

Clayton County Iowa

 Here you see the son of an Iowa Farmer showing off a new grain dryer.  The control station is housed in the shed next to the grain bin.

 Here is the Iowa Tractor Boy in the Control Shed/Monitoring Station as he observes the status of the corn drying operation.

This is a close up of the display which the Iowa Tractor Boy is viewing in the previous picture.  I have memories of picking ear corn when I was a much Younger Iowa Farm Boy.  We had a husking peg on our hand and stripped away the shuck and threw the ear corn into a wagon.  Most of the time the wagon was pulled by a team of horses.  Farming has certainly changed in the last sixty years.

John Deere

Open House

175th Anniversary

at the

Harvester Plant

Moline, Illinois

 My nephew works at this Plant and he had his Mother document the events of the day as John Deere Celebrated 175 years of progress in the Agriculture Implement Manufacture. 

 A Display of a one row Corn Picker. 

 I have fond memories of this style grain combine when I was a Young Farm Boy of 14 years of age.

 This view and several others which follow show the current "Combine," which is now known as a Harvester.

 This Harvester has an eighteen corn row header.  Certainly a much larger capacity than the 1950s models I watched as a young Farm Boy.

 A Harvester Motor

 The header

 This is the section that My Nephew works on.

No Open House is complete without Food.  I was told that about 10,000 people visited this Open House.



2012 Corn Harvest

Kale Avenue

Clayton County Iowa

Visitors to this Blog may recall that on August 15, 2012 I posted a series of pictures that showed a damaged corn crop, which was the result of a violent wind storm in late July.  The harvest has now commenced.

 This is a picture of a Corn Harvestor that has been altered to assist in the harvest of the corn crop when the stalks are laying low instead of standing up straight and tall.

 You will note the black tines which rotate to assist the stalks entry in the the harvestor header.

This is a picture of my Sibling assisting with the unloading of a corn wagon at the drying operation.  He always helps our Nephews with their corn harvest.