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 ...
Restoring a steam engine is a bigger task than refurbishing a tractor or pickup truck. Just ask Austin Chapman and Caleb Kearney, who recently drove their restored 1914 Rumley steam engine from a farm ...
ST. CHARLES, Minn.-Everyone is welcome at Mike and Lynette Richter's hobby farm this weekend for their 10th annual St. Charles Threshing Bee. Mike and Lynette Richter will host the 10th Annual St.
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 ...
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 ...
CHESTERVILLE -- The new Illinois Amish Heritage Center will host its inaugural steam threshing show on Friday and Saturday at its new location on Illinois Route 133, three miles east of Arthur, and ...
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 combine is a system that starts at the header and ends with the planter. No component functions independently; the header, feeder house, thresher, separator, cleaning fan and straw chopper all ...
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 ...
Gone are the days when farmers are compelled to shell out hefty sum as wage for the laborious pepper threshing mode using feet under highly unhygienic conditions. Gopalakrishna Sharma, an innovative ...
HAZLETON | Potential bidders started rolling on to Rudy and Sara Gingerich's farm early Wednesday, lured from as far away as Michigan, Delaware, Virginia, Alabama, Pennsylvania, the Dakotas and ...
ARTHUR — Steam Threshing Days will be held on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2 and 3, at the Illinois Amish Heritage Center, three miles east of Arthur. Attendees will see how crops were grown and ...