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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Randy Kruse pulls an old two-row corn picker, which removes the corn from the stalks and augers it into a wagon. Corn is dumped into the Kruses’ corncrib. The corn will dry there and later be ground ...

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 ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...