The muscular young man yanked off his shirt to the delight of the adoring women in the crowd of more than 100,000. Such an act might suggest the antics of a rock star in mid-concert, but on this day ...

NAPPANEE — Cornhusking champs from across the country will meet in Nappanee on Saturday. But on Friday, the remaining hopefuls for the National Corn Husking Association Contest ventured to Reed Farms ...

DELL RAPIDS, S.D. (AP) — A high-tech combine can harvest in an hour what used to take all day for a farmer using a hook and horse-drawn wagon. But every fall, men and women from around the Midwest ...

DELL RAPIDS, S.D. - A high-tech combine can harvest in an hour what used to take all day for a farmer using a hook and horse-drawn wagon. But every fall, men and women from around the Midwest meet at ...

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.

CENTRAL CITY — The best corn huskers in Nebraska will gather in Central City on Sunday for the 2011 State Hand Corn Husking Contest and Fall Festival. The event will begin at 9 a.m. at the Merrick ...

Corn huskers should plan to gather on the morning of Sept. 23 on the Gerken farm near Oak Center to test their skills against others at stripping the husk from an ear of corn. Registration for the ...

The public is invited; food and drink are available for purchase The 1940 national corn husking contest was held at the Keppy Farm just north of Davenport, Iowa, and attracted 125,000 spectators.

The Billerica Community Farmers Market held a spirited corn-husking contest on Sept. 8. A dozen contestants took part in the fun, with Spring Brook Farm’s Kenneth Rutledge as the winner. The Billerica ...