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 is introducing the new “Thresher Experience” exhibit to the public, bringing to life a 1912 Wood Brothers Threshing Machine. The exhibit, which opened this spring for field trips, ...

It takes quite a bit of work to get ready for the annual Camp Creek Threshers show outside of Waverly. One process involves harvesting wheat for the threshing machines. We visited with Fred Fleming ...

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 ...

When mid-August rolls around, my thoughts always revert back to harvest time back in the 1940s and 1950s when this aging writer was a youth eager to take on any task asked of him. The old threshing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 14—PELLA — A locally-based group of farm machinery enthusiasts put on a show for the south-central Iowa community at their ...

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) — ...

Harvesting small grains on the farm was always a major task each summer. Farmers needed to cut the wheat or oats, tie them into bundles and when dried, load the bundles onto horse-drawn racks to bring ...

ROLLAG, Minn. — Under a glassy-blue Minnesota sky, a billow of smoke comes from a steam-powered tractor, hurking itself across the landscape as it pulls ink-black earth to the sun. The land is being ...

Khargone: A tractor driver was crushed to death while operating a wheat thresher machine during harvesting work in Sonatalav village under the Barud p.