Threshing shows and old machinery are featured at Heritage Hill, Hanley Falls, Atwater and Forest City, with a Summer Rendezvous also taking place at the Forest City Stockade during the Forest City ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 15—If the daily grind of modern-day living is wearing you down, the Bos Brothers Fall Harvest Show may be the elixir to help ...

Step into rural Illinois history with vintage tractors, a working train, and live demos that bring old farming traditions to ...

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) — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Threshing shows and old machinery will be featured at Heritage Hill, Hanley Falls, Atwater and Forest City, with a Summer Rendezvous also taking place at the Forest City Stockade during the threshers ...

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 ...

HOLMDEL— It was hard enough to thresh wheat in 1890 but add in a bumper crop of weeds and the thistles fly all over the place. Staff at the Historic Longstreet Farm in Holmdel harvested the one acre ...

HAZLETON, Iowa (AP) - An Amish collector’s sale of antique farming equipment has drawn prospective bidders from as far away as Canada to northeast Iowa. Bidders from several states, including Michigan ...