When the price of corn is low and the price of energy high, agricultural producers may wonder if it would be cheaper to burn shelled corn rather than propane. The answer, according to an expert in ...

Discover how early American farmers shelled corn by hand, the role of corn shelling bees, and how mechanical shellers ...

Discover how corn shelling bees and early mechanical shellers transformed American agriculture and strengthened rural ...

Having grown up on a farm, I have been concerned about the well-meaning organizations that are providing shelled corn sand-box type play for children. Hopefully, adults are warning children that while ...

I had a bucket of shelled corn. They had a tractor, wagon, and a grain elevator. They played for hours with that. Or they used the corn as “food” for their tea parties. Sometimes it was kind of widely ...

BEAVERTON Larry Richardson has always liked to experiment with things. So it didn t seem too strange when he came up with the idea of a furnace that can burn enough corn to heat a house. Richardson is ...

MOUNT PULASKI — Creative uses for the humble corncob have come a long way from the outhouse. Today, the harvest byproduct is used in everything from animal bedding in laboratory settings to a filler ...

RAGAN — Wind-driven hail the size of quarters and half-dollars shelled corn right off the ears in a field southwest of Ragan around suppertime Monday and left the chunks of ice in drifts. “An hour ...