Before there was Amazon. Before there was the internet, people made yarn, clothing, iron tools, and other crafts that are no longer part of everyday life. A biannual show in central Illinois where farmers demonstrate skills that were commonly used at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Field to table.mp4
This video will show how corn was harvested, stored, and prepared as food for people in the middle of the twentieth century. Nearly all corn is harvested with larger, modern machines. Nearly all corn is used for livestock feed or ethanol fuel. A significant amount of corn is also ground into c...
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Corn Binding.mp4
One way corn was harvested in the early twentieth century was cutting the entire plant and bundling it. These bundles are often placed in shocks which are symbolic of fall harvest. In this video the bundles are brought in from the field to have the ears separated from the fodder. The ears of c...
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Picking Corn.mp4
The most common way of harvesting corn was to remove the ear from the stalk leaving the stalk in the field. This was done by hand until machines were developed. Until then; the amount of corn planted was dependent upon the amount of labor available to harvest. The ears are then moved to storag...
