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 ...

Aug. 14—PELLA — A locally-based group of farm machinery enthusiasts put on a show for the south-central Iowa community at their annual oats threshing demonstration, where they used antique farm ...

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 ...

The sight of a field filled with shocks of oats or an old abandoned threshing machine rekindles memories of days long ago. What was once a common sight on most farms is now the exception, unless you ...

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 ...

Around 1946, when Carol Ringler was barely big enough to see over the steering wheel, she climbed into the seat of a red International Harvester Farmall B tractor and slowly inched it up and down the ...

Dad also owned a threshing machine, and did threshing for most of the farmers in the area. The years I remember the power for the threshing machine was supplied by the big 15-30 tractor. In the ...

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) — ...

Actress Indra Burkovska tells the story of her father Aleksandrs and his large family and life on the farm through the 20th century when the farmer was both a master and a slave to his land Aleksandrs ...

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