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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before World War II, annual national championships were held to determine who could hand-harvest corn the fastest. Fairbury native ...

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 ...