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 ...

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 ...

SURRY COUNTY, Va. — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...