This slideshow of 14 pre-1986 harvest machines, submitted by readers, spans more than a century of harvest seasons.

Experience old-fashioned corn harvesting, vintage farm equipment and family fun at Franklin County Corn Pickers of the Past.

The tractor coughed but didn’t catch, so the old farmer on the ground yelled up to the old farmer behind the wheel. “The black button,” Don Magee said. “You push it in.” And then it roared to life, an ...

"Experiments to use combines to harvest corn began in the late 1920s. It wasn’t until the 1950s, when interchangeable corn ...

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.

Here’s a story of the joy a farmer had when he got a new corn picker after World War II… and of where the few bucks to pay for it were hidden. The story comes from Gary Swensen, Yankton, S.D. “During ...