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 old one-row corn picker may not be much to look at compared to the giant agri-industrial combines of today. But when the first practical models began to appear in the fields during the 1930s, this ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The nature of farming dramatically ...

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 ...

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 ...