EUGENE, Ore. - Growing up on a farm near Raritan Township in Barnes County, N.D., Ron Anderson was always interested in inventing and finding ways to improve operations. After graduating in 1962 from ...

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 harvest season is upon us! Farmers across the U.S. are hurriedly chopping, picking, and hauling the fruits of their ...

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Nearly 4,000 people crowded the F.I. Taylor farm near New Berlin on Nov. 21, 1924, for the first Illinois State Corn Husking contest. The competition, sponsored by Prairie Farmer magazine, continued ...