Before the age of combines, wheat, oats, rye and barley were harvested with a threshing machine. My earliest memory of threshing grain is with a steam engine and wooden threshing machine. In those ...

Frank — serious as a farm mechanic can be when necessary and by turns a practical joker — drove his classic Stearns-Knight from its shed a couple times in summer. The Stearns-Knight, which was a ...

Bob Nesselroad, a volunteer at Living History Farms in Des Moines, Iowa, stands on an antique steam tractor during a threshing demonstration in August 2022. (Rox Laird/Courthouse News) (CN) — ...

Matt Folstad had an idea: Rather than mow his 2 acres of yard every summer, why not plow it up and plant wheat on it? That was the start of his backyard threshing bee. Folstad, 38, works as a truck ...

Jul. 28—Old-time wheat threshing with side dishes of broom making, blacksmithing, basket weaving and other "hands-on" historical skills were all on the menu at the Bos Bros Fall Harvest, an ...

BUTTERFIELD, Minn. — The Butterfield Threshermen’s Association recently hosted their 45th Threshing Bee. "The site of the show was land given to the city of Butterfield in 1941 by A.R. Voss, a ...

ARTHUR — Steam Threshing Days will be held on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2 and 3, at the Illinois Amish Heritage Center, three miles east of Arthur. Attendees will see how crops were grown and ...

HAZLETON | Potential bidders started rolling on to Rudy and Sara Gingerich's farm early Wednesday, lured from as far away as Michigan, Delaware, Virginia, Alabama, Pennsylvania, the Dakotas and ...

Time travel is possible at the Yesteryear Farm Show, a showcase of what farming looked like before modern luxuries. Tom Lukow drives a 1950 Minneapolis-Moline ZA tractor while setting up for the ...

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ATWATER — With the sun beating down in a wide-open field Saturday morning, Ron Hennes, Dean Stenberg and Tony Anderson walked up and down a seven-acre stubble field grabbing bundles of oats that they ...