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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) — ...

A world record can be set for just about anything, and a group of farmers recently gathered in eastern Ontario to prove that. On August 11, the Guinness World Record for the largest number of ...

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 ...

Calling all farmers – past, present and future – and farming aficionados! It’s the 43rd annual Heatwole Threshing Show this weekend – Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13-14 – about 6 miles southwest of ...