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 ...

Naper Settlement will be able to conserve a keystone artifact for its Agricultural Interpretive Center thanks to a $72,209 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. The money, ...

SUNDERLAND — Paul Harder checked over the play of a main cylinder shaft of his 1920’s Waterloo threshing machine, currently being rebuilt at his farm. Members of the Gas and Steam Barn Club and the ...

Around 1946, when Carol Ringler was barely big enough to see over the steering wheel, she climbed into the seat of a red International Harvester Farmall B tractor and slowly inched it up and down the ...

When this country was new and farming meant the difference between life and starvation, the men and women who tilled the ground planted winter heat, tended it through the spring and prepared for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAKKI MARWAT: The district administration has fixed the per hour rates of wheat threshing in Bannu, asking the owners of thresher machines to implement the notified rates or face action. An official ...

HARIPUR: Owners of threshing machine have started overcharging farmers in Haripur as wheat harvesting season has kicked off. Speaking to journalists in Haripur on Sunday, Khanzada Khan, a farmer, said ...