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 ...

Jul. 15—If the daily grind of modern-day living is wearing you down, the Bos Brothers Fall Harvest Show may be the elixir to help you catch your breath, step back in time and experience "field to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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) — ...

Columnist Mychal Wilmes reflects on when his dad depended more on his weather vane than a weather forecast for harvesting his crop. Though he concedes a combine and a truck without holes in the box is ...

“It’s exciting to see how it went down back in the day,” said Christel Jenkins as she stood under a tree and watched wheat being separated, cleaned and bundled.

HAZLETON | Potential bidders started rolling on to Rudy and Sara Gingerich's farm early Wednesday, lured from as far away as Michigan, Delaware, Virginia, Alabama, Pennsylvania, the Dakotas and ...