Frank Hennenfent is a typical Illinois farmer. At this time of year, he spends countless hours in an air-conditioned, GPS-equipped combine – an enormous machine that can harvest as many as 12 rows of ...

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.

COLUMBUS, Neb. - Keeping traditions alive is the main purpose for the Nebraska State Hand Corn Husking contest held each year. This year's National Hand Corn Husking Championship will be Thursday ...

The hay mow was filled to the rafters with hay and straw bales, but the ear corn supply was gone as September approached. Oats and barley were decent substitutes until the new-crop corn moved from the ...

BREMEN — Contestants are getting ready for Indiana’s annual Corn Husking Contest. It’s going on all day Saturday in Bremen. People from across the state are competing. Each contestant will husk corn ...

Cornhusking champs from across the country will meet in Nappanee on Saturday. But on Friday, the remaining hopefuls for the National Corn Husking Association Contest ventured to Reed Farms to attempt ...

The husking is judged by how much corn is picked within an allotted time, usually 10, 15 or 20 minutes. Points are deducted for every ear of corn left behind in the row — either from not being picked ...

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.