Picking corn by hand, “a dying art”

U.S. farms are highly mechanized, one of the reasons a comparatively small number of people can produce a torrent of food, feed and fiber. Harvest Public Media went to western Illinois for a contest to harvest corn the old-fashioned way, by hand. The winner, Dick Humes, picked 322 pounds of corn by hand in 20 minutes –… » Read More

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