KINGSLEY, Iowa – Attention farmers: Michael Beavers needs your help. Not with picking corn. He handles that slowly, but surely. Very slowly. One row at a time. “I did 16 rows last Sunday,” said ...

Don Magee, who farms southeast of Lincoln, found and has restored a 1940s single-row corn picker. He tried it out in front of his neighbors Monday afternoon. Larry Gottula tries to fix a slipping belt ...

During summer road trips with the family, and sometimes just while driving to a more rural part of town to golf together, my Dad would drive us past row upon row upon row of corn. As a native Iowan, ...

Dick Humes squinted and sweat as he moved down a row of corn. He sliced through the husk with a metal hook in his right hand, snapped the ear from its stalk with his left, and threw it over his ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Harvest is in full swing here in KELOLAND. Today, there is technology like tractors and combines to help with the work, but that wasn’t always the case. In this week’s ...

Since moving to Iowa more than three years ago, I've learned a few things about corn. I had no choice. With 12.2 million acres planted in the stuff, the state grows more corn than any other in 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.

This tractor is featured for the month of October in the 2013 Classic Farm Tractors Calendar. That’s Missouri’s state capitol in Jefferson City framed by this beautiful blue Ford and two-row corn ...