David - I picked a load for my farming partner a few years ago for food plots and charged him the market rate at 70/lbs a bu as Justin points out. Didn't charge a premium as we are friends and the picking was fun. Market rate is the minimum. On the other extreme farm stores sell bags of a dozen ears for $5 retail as squirrel corn. If you are hand picking up the corn from a farmer's field for your own usage, I'd think at most $1 bu over market would be very fair. Don't discount the manual labor you are supplying to pick up the corn. If it's an open field w/o fences and the farmer doesn't have livestock (cattle or pigs) to turn out in it to clean it up for feed, then corn is worthless lying on the ground given the effort and cost to pick it up. It only has value after you have picked it by hand.
Put you zip in here to find daily grain market rates at elevators in your part of the MO:
http://dtn.mocorn.org/index.cfm?show=31&mid=15Mike
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