It takes quite a bit of work to get ready for the annual Camp Creek Threshers show outside of Waverly. One process involves harvesting wheat for the threshing machines. We visited with Fred Fleming ...

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 ...

Matt Folstad had an idea: Rather than mow his 2 acres of yard every summer, why not plow it up and plant wheat on it? That was the start of his backyard threshing bee. Folstad, 38, works as a truck ...

Before the age of combines, wheat, oats, rye and barley were harvested with a threshing machine. My earliest memory of threshing grain is with a steam engine and wooden threshing machine. In those ...

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 ...

Jul. 28—Old-time wheat threshing with side dishes of broom making, blacksmithing, basket weaving and other "hands-on" historical skills were all on the menu at the Bos Bros Fall Harvest, an ...

For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

The 23rd Annual Threshing Bee, held by the South Central Montana Antique Tractor and Machinery Association, brings together the club’s 200 members and as many as 2,000 spectators on Saturday and ...

It is time for the third Annual Old Fashioned Farming Day, which will be held at 6450 W. 275 North, Shipshewana, on the farm of Mervin Yoder Demonstrations at the Farming Day show how neighbors helped ...

PEKIN, N.D. -- Wheat chaff spewed, smoke blew and the kitchen crew's hands flew as history came alive across Stump Lake Village Monday, Sept. 2, during the 24th annual threshing bee. This is the 24th ...