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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 6:33 PM, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have never seen a tractor that shells corn as it picks the corn.  Maybe I 
> can find a video on youtube.  What do they do with the cob?   bobford
>
Wikipedia has a good introduction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combine_harvester

One of the good things about this method of harvest is that the cob
goes back onto the ground and makes for more organic material in the
soil.

Marie