OAK CENTER, Minn. - The 30th annual Minnesota State Corn Husking Contest is Sept. 25 at the annual Corn Shredding Autumn Harvest Days near Oak Center. Hand husking is a dying art, said Kathy Ofstie, ...

COLUMBUS, Neb. - Keeping traditions alive is the main purpose for the Nebraska State Hand Corn Husking contest held each year. This year's National Hand Corn Husking Championship will be Thursday ...

The hay mow was filled to the rafters with hay and straw bales, but the ear corn supply was gone as September approached. Oats and barley were decent substitutes until the new-crop corn moved from the ...

BREMEN — Contestants are getting ready for Indiana’s annual Corn Husking Contest. It’s going on all day Saturday in Bremen. People from across the state are competing. Each contestant will husk 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.

"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 husked ...

Corn husking contests originated with Henry A. Wallace, an agricultural and political leader during the first half of the 20th century. Born into a prominent Iowa agricultural family, he was publisher ...

HOLDREGE — The registration form and schedule for the 2020 Nebraska State Hand Corn Husking & Fall Festival Oct. 3 at the Nebraska Prairie Museum in Holdrege are ...

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, continued ...