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Harvest is underway in Minnesota for corn and soybeans, according to the USDA, NASS, Minnesota Field Office. As of September 25, 2 percent of corn is harvested, compared to 2 percent last year and ...

On Sept. 27, a member of the South Lake County Agricultural Historical Society carries stalks of corn before building a shock. Corn has too much moisture in it when picked and must be dried out.

He uses it mostly for drying corn with a storage capacity on the farm just shy of 200,000 bushels. He farms about 2,000 acres in all with a mix of corn, soybeans, wheat and alfalfa.

Corn stalks are cut and dried out in the field for 15 to 20 days before ears are picked off, manually unhusked, completely de-kerneled with passed down tools, and sorted by kernel size to be sold.