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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The dozens of silk flower arrangements lining the hall outside 96-year-old Harvey Bish’s apartment seem a quantum leap from ...

Troopers say a man was driving a tractor pulling a corn picker Saturday night when he lost control near Port Trevorton. The passenger, 73-year-old Wayne Kantz, was thrown from the tractor. He was ...