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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) — ...

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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 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 ...