 After the ear corn goes up the drag from the husking building it arrives at the drier building where it is dried. It takes a lot of electricity and natural gas to dry the whole ear to 12% moisture, especially if it started out at 35% moisture.. |
 Rob empties the drier to go to the
Sheller and scalping building. It take a lot of effort to scoop out corn on the ear. A rubber conveyor gently moves the dried ear corn seed to the
Sheller. |
 The ear corn seed is now at about 12% moisture and is ready to be shelled, cleaned and moved into storage. Our dryer contains two sides divided in many compartments. This gives us the flexibility to dry several different hybrids at once. |
 The shelling and scalping building. The corn seed must be removed from the cob and cleaned up. We do this as gently as we can to prevent damage to the seed |
 Bob, Bryan and Ryan change the screens in the scalping unit. It is a big decision to decide what to keep and what to discard and it is all controlled by the size of the screens in this machine. |
 Screens in scalper remove waste corn and foreign material. Rubber balls bounce around on the screens to keep them of plugging. The corn seed goes one way the discarded material goes another. |
 By products go into a wagon and truck to be used as cattle feed by area livestock producers. It is move into storage by being blown on a stream of air. We also provide livestock producers with the ear corn husks to be fed to cattle. |
 Cobs go here to be sold to make such things as cosmetics. |
 Robin dumps a load of seed which was removed from storage and brought by truck to the seed corn processing plant. Our seed corn conditioning plant is state of the art and contains all the latest equipment to process our seed corn. Companies which are larger then we are don't do anything different then what we do to condition their seed. In this case the size of the company is totally irrelevant. |
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