"I husked for 20 minutes and it's treacherous,” Corn husker competitor Ted Richard says. Hand husking corn is mostly for sport these days, but it’s still hard work. "50-60 years ago everybody husked ...

Watch Kalamazoo Gazette's Rosemary Parker husk microwaved corn on the cob Kalamazoo Gazette reporter Rosemary Parker wanted to prove a method of cooking sweet corn in the microwave, then popping it ...

EUGENE, Ore. - Growing up on a farm near Raritan Township in Barnes County, N.D., Ron Anderson was always interested in inventing and finding ways to improve operations. After graduating in 1962 from ...

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 ...

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.

Nearly 4,000 people crowded the F.I. Taylor farm near New Berlin on Nov. 21, 1924, for the first Illinois State Corn Husking contest. The competition, sponsored by Prairie Farmer magazine, continued ...