Returned to the family after three-quarters of a century Delbert Miller learned that his wife’s great-grandfather had built a ...

The threshers are coming, the threshers are coming! Just what are, or were, the threshers? By definition, a thresher is a person who beats the husks and stems of a crop to separate the grain or seed ...

MANKATO -- After pitching oats into a restored 1936 John Deere thresher in the muggy heat, Doug Hager climbed down from the hay wagon and wiped away the sweat running from under his cap. "This is the ...

Bob Cleavenger, left, and Herman Watson stand at the controls of a steam engine during the early days of the McLouth Threshing Bee. Watson organized the first threshing bee in 1957 on his farm east of ...

Hopkins, today, is easy to shrug off as just another suburb in the westward sprawl. But its history and growth are well-defined as the longtime home of an innovative, all-but-forgotten farm machinery ...

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After farm dust disrupted her classroom, a UP schoolgirl built a dust-free threshing machine. Her Rs 3,000 idea earned ...

The field closest to the family farmhouse at the Burrier Linganore Farm featured old tractors on display, large wagons stacked with sheaves of wheat and vintage threshing machines — not to mention a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Devon farming company has been fined after a worker was dragged into a reed threshing machine. John Dullam, 44, was working on the reed combing machine at Narracott Farm, South Molton, in March last ...