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 ...

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WILLIAMSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a 27-year-old man died following a farming accident in eastern Indiana. The Palladium-Item reports Jonathon “Jesse” Martin was found dead by emergency ...

Before farming became mechanized, picking corn by hand and pitching ears into a horse-drawn wagon was how harvesting was done. In the late 19th century, local contests were held to determine the best ...

KERSHAW COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) - Imagine having to make the “unthinkable choice” in order to save your life. It’s a story WIS-TV covered more than a decade ago when a Kershaw County farmer was forced to ...

A man became trapped in a corn picker in Drumore Township, prompting a farm rescue on Thursday, Oct. 23, emergency crews said. Crews from Rawlinsville Volunteer Fire Company were dispatched to the ...

The sun’s first rays are spilling over Jumbo Mountain when the team clambers aboard the sprawling corn harvester. John Harold joins the pickers as they twist his “Olathe Sweet” sweet corn from the ...

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.

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 ...