Credit: Chad Nelson/KARE 11 94-year-old Gunny Knudson prepares to offload shelled corn on the fly from his combine to the a grain cart. As a young man, Gunny harvested with a one-row corn picker. Now, ...

As a young man, Gunny harvested with a one-row corn picker. Now, he operates a massive machine gobbling up 18 rows of corn at a time. The video screen at his fingertips is the latest in high tech.

As a young man, Gunny harvested with a one-row corn picker. Now, he operates a massive machine gobbling up 18 rows of corn at a time. The video screen at his fingertips is the latest in high tech.

As a young man, Gunny harvested with a one-row corn picker. Now, he operates a massive machine gobbling up 18 rows of corn at a time. The video screen at his fingertips is the latest in high tech.

As a young man, Gunny harvested with a one-row corn picker. Now, he operates a massive machine gobbling up 18 rows of corn at a time. The video screen at his fingertips is the latest in high tech.

One day Clifford called Luvern to tell him his (Clifford’s) name had come up for a new corn picker, but it was in Rapid City, S.D., and the two farmers lived near Yankton, about 400 miles away.

94-year-old Gunny Knudson prepares to offload shelled corn on the fly from his combine to the a grain cart. As a young man, Gunny harvested with a one-row corn picker.

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 ...

Don Magee, with his grandson Jacob Larsen in tow, uses his 1957 John Deere and vintage Dearborn-Woods Bros picker to harvest a row of corn southeast of Lincoln in November 2015.

This plastic and metal model is a New Idea one-row corn picker that was made by Topping Models, Inc. of Akron, Ohio, in 1952. The picker is made to be tractor-drawn. Location Currently not on view ...

Don Magee, who farms southeast of Lincoln, found and has restored a 1940s single-row corn picker. He tried it out in front of his neighbors Monday afternoon.

Bulbulian is director of the Mayo Foundation Museum of Hygiene and Medicine. A John Deere No. 101, a one-row corn picker used only one season, is $185 at Allen Truck & Implement in Rochester.