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 ...

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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.

BROOKS, Ore. — Antique cars, tractors, threshing machines and giant steam traction engines are just some of the machinery on display at the 62-acre Powerland Heritage Park. For two weekends this ...

ROLLAG, Minn. - It's the year of the bulldog at the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's Reunion. The popular event, which celebrates the farming equipment and threshing operations of yesterday, will ...

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 ...

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) — ...

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 ...