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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Irish priest Father Denis Reidy grew up on a rural farm in Co Cork and he recalls how threshing machines in the 1930s changed Irish agriculture. In this video by Irelandmade.ie, we meet people who ...

It makes one wonder what we might put up there next. Will it be hay balers and grain trucks or Studebakers and hippie vans? One cow on a hilltop in New Salem, a giant bison guarding Jamestown and an ...

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