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Corn harvester method

(A) Segmented Harvesting Method: There are two different operating procedures for segmented harvesting:

(1) Cutting and laying down the corn with a cutter-sun machine, after a few days of drying, waiting for the kernel moisture to drop to 20-22%, picking the cob and peeling the kernels mechanically or manually, and then transporting it to the field for threshing with a threshing machine.

(2) Peeling and then threshing with a peeling machine, or direct threshing of the cob. The stalks are chopped by machine or raked by disk harrow and returned to the field.  (B) joint harvesting method: joint harvesting method has several different harvesting process:

(1) with a corn combine harvester, a complete picking, peeling (or threshing, at this time, the grain moisture should be 25% -29%), stalks or chopping and spreading the field of operations, and then the cob without bracts and leaves transported to the field, by drying (or not by drying) after Threshing.

(2) The grain combine harvester is equipped with a maize cutting table, and the operations of picking ears and peeling (threshing, separating and cleaning) are completed in one go. The stalks in the ground are chopped and returned to the field with other machinery, and some corn cutting tables are equipped with a cutter, which first cuts down the corn and feeds the whole plant into the threshing device of the combine harvester for threshing, separating and cleaning.

(3) The corn is cut down with a cutter-sun machine (or manually) and put into a zig-zag strip spread, and after a few days of drying, it is picked up and threshed with a grain combine harvester equipped with a grain picker.