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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Ronald Miller of Geneseo, Illinois, ...

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

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 ...