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 ...

The evolution of agricultural machinery has been pivotal in transforming crop harvesting into a highly efficient, precision‐driven operation. Threshing technology, in particular, has advanced from ...

Hopkins, today, is easy to shrug off as just another suburb in the westward sprawl. But its history and growth are well-defined as the longtime home of an innovative, all-but-forgotten farm machinery ...

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 ...

Irish priest Father Denis Reidy grew up on a rural farm in Co Cork and he recalls how threshing machines in the 1930s changed Irish agriculture. In this video by Irelandmade.ie, we meet people who ...

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 ...

It makes one wonder what we might put up there next. Will it be hay balers and grain trucks or Studebakers and hippie vans? One cow on a hilltop in New Salem, a giant bison guarding Jamestown and an ...

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 ...

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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