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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) — ...

The machine he and others were demonstrating at the Pioneer Power show outside Le Sueur over the weekend was a model that could be operated with a steam engine, or in this case, old-fashioned horse ...

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Calling all farmers – past, present and future – and farming aficionados! It’s the 43rd annual Heatwole Threshing Show this weekend – Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13-14 – about 6 miles southwest of ...