Max Armstrong shares his insight on an extensive look at the history the corn picker. The result is a hefty tome of more than 800 pages that offers an important history of a critical development in farm equipment history. The corn picker went through a number of development cycles, as Max outlines.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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