{{Short description|Agricultural machine}} A '''corn picker''' is an agricultural machine used to harvest corn leaving the whole ear intact rather than shelling the kernels off like a conventional combine.
The first corn picker was produced in 1909.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Agricultural Mechanization - History part 3 - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century |url=http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3807#:~:text=In%201900%20corn%20was%20shucked,tractor%20engines%20were%20becoming%20popular. |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=www.greatachievements.org}}</ref> New Idea introduced the first commercially successful corn sheller and husker in 1928.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Corn Picker and Husker, 1928 - The Henry Ford |url=https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/84603 |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=www.thehenryford.org |language=en}}</ref> Massey Harris began manufacturing self propelled corn pickers in 1946.
Corn pickers began suffering an extreme loss in sales after a corn head was developed for combines in 1956.
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