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 ...
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 ...
SUMMIT STATION – The King may be gone, but he certainly wasn’t forgotten Friday night at the Schuylkill County Fair. Day five of the fair featured two rocking performances from Brandon Bennett, a ...
EDINBURGH - I'm generations removed from farming, so looking at the machinery on display at the Edinburgh Folk Festival was an eye-opening experience. And once the threshing demonstration started, it ...
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) — ...
CEDAR FALLS — The power of vintage agricultural machinery was on display at Antique Acres for the 60th annual Old Time Power Show over the weekend. The three-day event featured plenty for attendees to ...
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 ...
Norskedalen’s Annual Threshing Bee moved from September to August, but the move came up short when someone forgot to line up oats for the threshing machine demonstration. The old-fashioned threshing ...
MERIDEN — In a few days, a McCormick-Deering threshing machine at the Cottonwood Station grounds east of Meriden will be powered by an antique tractor to harvest grains of wheat. Volunteers will use ...
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 ...
Bryant Young and his son Luke, both of Dover, Del., operate the Frick engine during the threshing machine demonstration at the 48th annual Wheat Threshing, Steam & Gas Engine Show on Saturday near ...