TREMONT — History came to life Thursday on Al Beutel’s family farm south of Tremont. A New Idea corn picker from the late 1940s or early 1950s was used to pick the final two rows of corn of the season ...

The tractor coughed but didn’t catch, so the old farmer on the ground yelled up to the old farmer behind the wheel. “The black button,” Don Magee said. “You push it in.” And then it roared to life, an ...

Here’s a story of the joy a farmer had when he got a new corn picker after World War II… and of where the few bucks to pay for it were hidden. The story comes from Gary Swensen, Yankton, S.D. “During ...

Harvesting corn in a $300,000, eight-row combine is a solitary, highly mechanized business. Such was not always the case. Up through the late 1930s, most corn was picked not by machine, but by hand.

CONCORD — Take an early morning drive past almost any stretch of New England farmland right now and you may see ears of corn flying through the air into the back of a nearby wagon. It’s the height of ...

Dozens of volunteers came out for the 10th annual Sweet Corn Picking event on Saturday, Aug. 14 in Fort Morgan. The event started ten years ago when Mike Kosman and Bruce Postovit decided to grow ...