Harvest season should be starting in the month ahead.
That is unlikely this year because the crop was planted late and set back by numerous weather events. But the desire to get ready for harvest has awakened across the state.
Several years ago, I met a man who treasures the early days of hybrid corn development and the era where open pollinated corn was planted by hand or with horses using a check row planter.
He is Steve Kenkel, from Earling.
His story is inspiring and difficult, all at the same time. He has put together all the machines and memorabilia of the early history of mechanized corn planting and hybridization, but in two weeks, he will be selling it.
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