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, continue… ...

“I used one 60 years ago to pick corn,” Amos Conley, of Mount Joy, says of his husking peg. “It went on your four fingers, and the thumb would go against the pointed end to pick corn by hand.” ...

The tall corn of Paul Renz's fields, outside Platte City, Mo., grows 80 bushels an acre, even in a dry year. Thousands of people from tall corn states went out to Renz's last week, parked their ...

At the Indiana State Corn Husking contest on Saturday in Bremen, around 100 huskers were stalking a national spot in their age groups, but you have to be the top two in your class to advance to ...

Their deductions were made for corn left unpicked in the rows and for husks left on the corn. Nolden, Sauk County’s Champion Corn Husker for the year 1941, went on to compete with other winners ...