As a high school student, I remember watching neat old movies about farming in FFA, so I always love finding these old films on YouTube. This week’s feature video was an Encyclopedia Britannica film produced to highlight modern corn farming in 1960. In the film, they demonstrated harvesting green corn as silage with a chopper, a picker that produced shelled corn, and one that harvested the whole cob. All of which were primarily used for feeding cattle and hogs. Back then it was the livestock that were the cash crop which required considerable storage capacity on each farm. Watch this video to relive the history of two-row equipment pulled by simple tractors and farm life 65 years ago.
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