A corn picker is an agricultural machine used to harvest corn leaving the whole ear intact rather than shelling the kernels off like a conventional combine.

The first corn picker was produced in 1909.[1] New Idea introduced the first commercially successful corn sheller and husker in 1928.[2] Massey Harris began manufacturing self propelled corn pickers in 1946.

Corn pickers began suffering an extreme loss in sales after a corn head was developed for combines in 1956.

References

  1. ↑ "Agricultural Mechanization - History part 3 - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century". www.greatachievements.org. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  2. ↑ "Corn Picker and Husker, 1928 - The Henry Ford". www.thehenryford.org. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
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