Combine Arrives; Harvest To Occur January 6th & 7th**UPDATED BELOW**

The Not A Cornfield crop will be harvested today, Friday, January 6 and tomorrow, Saturday, January 7, 2006.**

(The corn in the field has previously been hand-picked by community volunteers as well as not a Not A Cornfield staffers.)

The machine harvesting will be accomplished via a John Deere 9660 Combine that arrived earlier this hour from Tipton, California. The 33-foot-long, 12 1/2-foot-tall, 13 1/2-foot-wide, green-painted machine with a canary yellow racing stripe -- if that word applies to farm work -- and a front wheel six-feet-tall was brought down Interstate 5 on the back of an eighteen-wheeler. Another semi joined the convoy, carrying the combine's accessories, including an 8-row corn head, rollers, feed house, and stalk cutter. Escort vehicles helped guide the big rigs down Alameda Street, onto Baker, and now, onto the art project grounds.

The combine will likely begin progressing through the field at or around 2pm today. It will likely conclude its work tomorrow (Saturday).

Early next week, baling is scheduled to occur.

Also, thousands of the multi-colored ears of corn picked recently from the art project grounds are now hanging on the fence on the east side of the 32-acre site that is the home of the Los Angeles State Historic Park.

Per usual, Not A Cornfield is free-of-charge and open daily to the public, 6am-8pm.

**UPDATE: After making two passes through the field, the combine operator has determined that, thanks to the heavy precipitation earlier this week, the grounds are too soggy to continue the work today, or Saturday. However, as of 4:10pm, when we type this update, the combine is now in its processing mode, and Not A Cornfield staffers are feeding ears of corn from 30 agriculture bins into one end of the machine, which then sorts, seperates and expels husks and kernels from the far end.