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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dozens of volunteers came out for the 10th annual Sweet Corn Picking event on Saturday, Aug. 14 in Fort Morgan. The event started ten years ago when Mike Kosman and Bruce Postovit decided to grow ...