Although today’s combines and tractors are computerized, residents can see how farmers harvested corn by hand. Pleasantville High School teacher Dennis Oliver is inviting people to be part of a re-enactment of early 20th century harvesting techniques and machinery in southern Iowa this Saturday. The Saturday event begins at 1 p.m. at Dennis Oliver’s farm at 19829 Kirkwood Street in Milo, Iowa. He says he got the re-enactment idea when his 85 year-old- father-in-law expressed wanting to pick corn again with a team of horses

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