The dozens of silk flower arrangements lining the hall outside 96-year-old Harvey Bish’s apartment seem a quantum leap from his days as an ag machinery innovator. But for Bish, creating floral bouquets is not all that different from the day more than 70 years ago when he revolutionized the harvest industry by attaching a corn picker to a harvester combine, creating a conversion unit that enabled simultaneous picking and shelling of corn.
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Harvey Bish, 96, is pictured holding the patent he received in 1957 for a corn picker-sheller conversion unit. Bish’s invention revolutionized the corn harvest industry, enabling the simultaneous picking and shelling of corn with a harvester combine.
Midwest Messenger photo by Carla Post
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Elmer Hohlen takes time out from his busy corn harvest to smile for a photo during the 1950s.
Photo provided by John Hohlen of Juniata, Neb.
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The caption accompanying this 1986 Hastings Tribune photo noted that Harvey Bish didn’t mind mixing up colors when it came to combines and cornheads. Bish is shown holding a John Deere model combine fitted with an International head, while the opposite – and most popular – combination on an actual combine can be seen in the background. Bish’s patented corn picker and sheller conversion unit for combines was a game changer for the corn harvest industry.
Hastings Tribune photo by Lynn Monson
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A 1986 Hastings Tribune photo shows Harvey Bish at his business near Giltner, Neb., with a lot full of head changers that he designed and produced, along with fold-down bin extenders. The head changer allowed combines to be fitted with various brands of cornheads. The implement led Bish to create Harv’s Farm Supply, which sold not only the equipment adapters and bin extensions, but also tractors, combines and heads.
Hastings Tribune photo by Lynn Monson
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Carla Post is a freelance journalist from a fourth-generation farm in south central Nebraska. She also works as music teacher, choir accompanist and church organist. She enjoys spending time on the farm with her menagerie of chickens, ducks, cats and a dog. A founding member of Pauline Area Historical Society, she is active in writing about and preserving local history. She chronicled a year on her family farm as a Midwest Messenger Producer Progress Reporter in 2022.
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