FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind. (WISH) — A 27-year-old man died Monday when he tried to clean out a tractor-powered corn picker and became entangled in it. Wayne County emergency communications around 4:58 p.m.

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Harvesting corn in a $300,000, eight-row combine is a solitary, highly mechanized business. Such was not always the case. Up through the late 1930s, most corn was picked not by machine, but by hand.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before World War II, annual national championships were held to determine who could hand-harvest corn the fastest. Fairbury native ...