New manuals for older combines start at around $80 ... The grain gets trapped in that mat and carried out the back of the combine.” When harvesting corn, optimum chaffer settings are generally ...

At a farm outside Conway, an 87-year-old man climbed onto a combine to harvest corn for about an hour Sunday afternoon. It’s an event Bernie Samuels had been anticipating for at least 15 years ...

Farmers are well into the harvesting ... older farm equipment can’t operate in snow at all. Newer equipment can, but still has its limitations. “You do have to slow down because the combine ...

ONAWA, Iowa | I've hopped on combines in the snow ... spoke with me as he finished picking corn in June. The harvest that would not end, I wrote, lasted 10 months. Rick Archer of Onawa, Iowa ...

At 94, the founder of the Knudson farm still harvests most of the corn ... 94-year-old driver of the combine heading toward him. Maybe there’s another great-grandson working the harvest in ...

South Central Nebraska—I began picking corn Oct ... also have two combines in Kansas cutting milo. We’ve got a long ways to go yet but we’ll keep working the days away harvesting the ...