At sunrise, a harvest crew with the Tuxedo Corn Company rip ears of Olathe Sweet brand sweet corn from a field off Falcon Road southwest of Olathe Colo., Monday morning, July 22, 2024.

Clark Tenakhongva, 65, sprinkles ground corn onto the soil during a sunrise prayer at his corn field, before he begins the day’s harvesting in the valley between First Mesa and Second Mesa on ...

By 6:30 a.m., the first truck has left the field en route to Tuxedo Corn’s shipping facility, where the boxes will be inspected and iced before being loaded onto trucks.