We have a few folks who run the ear pickers around here, the old one or two row pull type ones..... they don't do much and mainly do it to sell the ears to people in the city for stupid money... As in, youwould ave to e stupid to spend money like that, lol.. Most of the old pickers are getting pretty old but it does make a great grower ration..
We don't have any of the Monkey cages on this place for ear corn (Although there are some in the area), this farm always used Corn cribs and we have something like 4 medium sized ones and one huge one left over... The medium ones have storage above for oats or beans and were set up to mix feed at one point (So I am told) when the folks who used to rent this place fed out all their cattle back in the 70's....
I would imagine, if one got real ambitious with the ear corn they could run one of the seed corn pickers but you would need to run them over a husker at the point as those leave the husk on to protect the seed.