Picking corn right by Gary’s shop. Round Lake, Minnesota — Soybean harvest is getting close to completion, and Paul has now moved two machines over to corn. He’s running two carts and between four and ...

WATERLOO, Iowa --- The Clausmans have one sweet, and rare, machine. When most local sweet corn producers pick by hand in the sweltering heat, Al Clausman hardly breaks a sweat. And he harvests corn in ...

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.

ARLINGTON, Neb. (AP)-- Long before combines and hybrids, corn was picked by hand, ear-by-ear, row-by-row. And some people can't wait to get back to that long, tedious process. ``Just bringing back the ...