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 ...

SURRY COUNTY, Va. — The old one-row corn picker may not be much to look at compared to the giant agri-industrial combines of today. But when the first practical models began to appear in the fields ...

Before World War II, annual national championships were held to determine who could hand-harvest corn the fastest. Fairbury native Ted Balko won the national contest in 1934 and 1938. Ted ...