“Two rows at a time, slow and dirty” is how Chad Coleman describes his corn harvest. He’s surrounded by crunching, brittle corn plants, dust, parts of shredded stalks and leaves, and a deafening noise ...

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 ...

Before farming became mechanized, picking corn by hand and pitching ears into a horse-drawn wagon was how harvesting was done. In the late 19th century, local contests were held to determine the best ...