Happy Harvests part 1

first of all let's get the matter of introductions out of the way if you don't Bob garstin Charlie Thomas here goes this is Bob Bart if you see them again this winter you won't be wearing a hat stand either and here's cha Thomas whose constant attention to growing and processing seed corn is your crop insurance for next year the result of this partnership is an institution dedicated to the production of superior seed corn the largest and most modern plant in existence more than a hundred thousand bushels of pioneer hybrid seed were dried sorted graded and back here this year the warehouse 300 feet long and with a capacity of more than 40,000 bushels was recently built to accommodate the increasing volume when I met you a moment ago I knew you were here to find out the house why of hybrid car and how and why issues will put more money in your pocket but before we see what has been done with hybrid corn let's take a look at a field of open pollinated corn I think you'll recognize maybe we can refresh your memory about the false and the flaws of open pollinated torn anywhere in the Corn Belt fields of open pollinated corn greet the eye this one isn't a bad feel in fact it's pretty good but it won't bear close inspection garstin Thomas have thousands of visitors every fall to insist upon seeing the difference between open pollinated corns and pioneer hi-bred corn no worse than the average field yet there's a decided lack of stiffness here which is notably present in the hybrid field your to visit later you will observe a general lack of stiffness and style looks like the cows have been in the corn there's an appearance of sagginess due mostly to fall in stocks stocks that break before the ears mature cause chappy and rotten ears not sound corn and not conducive to large yields the stocks upon which these ears were produced went down early with resultant rottenness of the ear limber stocks are easily blown down that are difficult to pick either by hand or by machine when the wind is accompanied by rain the fallen stock attempts to come up again and in so doing forms a gooseneck another reason for stocks falling is a poor weak root system a typical fault of open pollinated corn later you will contrast this root with the heavy pioneer hi-bred root the lack of uniformity in plaintive ears of open pollinated form slows down picking materially for this reason corn picking contests are practically always held in high bred fields where the contestants show to the greatest advantage the uneven position of ears seen here does not permit rapid or efficient Huskie another fault of open pollinated corn is the fact that the ears themselves drop off so easily on windy days a mechanical corn picker can't pick up these ears a human corn pickers doesn't like to after the corn picker has been through the open-pollinated field the job of picking up volunteers yet remains this extra task is wholly unnecessary in the pioneer hi-bred fields which you'll soon see 10% of the corn was left on the ground too much to leave but a lot of work to get and here's what you finally do get on you know form size shape and quality reason for the lack of uniformity and figure in the field that we've just looked at is that you don't know which pollen grains pollinated each separate pound in other words you don't know who the daddy was no one would be so foolish as to try to improve livestock without selecting the finest sire the we didn't you get a prize-winning bull or a good boar is because some breeder has selected his grandparents with the greatest of care now let's take a look at a field of Pioneer hybrid corn where we do know the father from the grandfather in fact we know all of the ancestry for ten generations back the cloud gets larger you know what they say about building a better mousetrap this is daily routine during harvest time at the garstin Thomas plant in Coon Rapids where visitors are welcome seeing is believing here's an example of what plan Deere hybrid seed corn will do for you there's an ear on every stock the ears are at a uniform height and the stops are standing up stiff straight and strong and the ears will bear plenty of inspection to again the uniformity of height is extremely noticeable product of two adjacent hills three emphasizes the uniformity of the ears for size type and quality they're a noonday meal for any horse pioneer produces corn of real quality it's good feed and it markets at top prices what all of you who've marveled at 100 bushels per acre yields you're now seeing 110 bushels to the acre what do you think of this neighborhood of healthy ears called the gold coast by one visitor 110 bushels to the acre means eighty eight hundred pounds of ear corn it takes sturdy stops to hold up this kind of a crop how beautifully they stand we can even see angle wise or crosswise through the corn field take a look down that aisle a pathway to prosperity and what's more the ears don't fall off when the wind blows remember how easily they fill in the other fields smoke that one in your pipe mr. corn can't stand up without a root system either go ahead pull it out it can be done but it takes plenty of help these roots go down where the plants grooving Morse your arms they oughta produce coins they've had plenty of opportunity to absorb a lot of nourishment from the soil and they did produce a lot of corn roots tell a lot of the story of pioneer hi-bred corn which one of these two roots do you think has the best chance to get down where the moisture in plant food are which one will hold the stock the straightest a pioneer hi-bred root is four times as large the mechanical quantico also gets a real chance to do a good job in hybrid corn sooner or later all farmers will be using the corn thicker the heavy root system sturdy straight stops and strong shanks of Pioneer hybrids are well adapted to mechanical for kicking this is corn raising reduced to a science in a few minutes that wagon will be back full of corn from four rows seventy rods long when picking corn by hands or mechanically how convenient it is to find the ear at a uniform height on every stop there aren't two inches difference in the height of ears just to show that these individual hills aren't unusual for this pioneer field let's pick three consecutive hills how uniform they are in height found nicely they break out and what fun to pick these golden ears and man what a profit three adjacent Hills nine big fine quality ears harder to hold them to husk over here the convict has already made one round 70 rods long and here's the tape hold on there old boy over then we can't blame you at that they'd never believe you're back home if you didn't have some corn to back it up and over in the corner of the field the loaded wagons are done the coin elevated on the waiting trucks and headed for the processing plant in one day three men with a corn picker have picked two thousand bushels from 19 acres of land and loaded it onto the trucks again we repeat barn-raising reduced to a science and so to town it goes while we spring along behind let's glance at the field that was picked with the sturdy straight pollen rows left standing the corn from these pollen rows is never used for seed but is later picked and fed you