Dick Humes squinted and sweat as he moved down a row of corn. He sliced through the husk with a metal hook in his right hand, snapped the ear from its… At Harvest, Corn Huskers Still Pick By ...

With the "okay" hand sign deemed to have taken on associations with white supremacists, Nebraska officials moved to give Herbie Husker a "We're No. 1" gesture.

The top tool, many of our readers knew, is a hand-held corn husker. You can guess at the function of this month's new tool, bottom, from the collection of the Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum ...

CENTRAL CITY - A steady rhythm of corn thumping against wooden bang boards punctuated the pleasant October air Saturday morning during the 2010 Nebraska State Hand Cornhusking Contest at the ...

By the 1930s, hand corn husking became the fastest-growing sport in America, drawing over 100,000 spectators at national contests. Nebraska is one of nine states still ho. Aired 02/15/2024 ...

At Harvest, Corn Huskers Still Pick By Hand. By Harvest Public Media Posted October 14, 2014. Tweet. Dick Humes squinted and sweat as he moved down a row of 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.

In its inaugural season on the shelves of 19 retail stores and all University of Nebraska–Lincoln concession stands, Corn Finger sold over 4,500 of its foam fingers in 2009. Photos by Danny Schreiber.

"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 ...

The Nebraska Corn Board and the Nebraska Corn Growers Association are preparing to welcome visitors to Grand Island for Husker Harvest Days, known as the world’s largest totally irrigated working ...