A combine is a system that starts at the header and ends with the planter. No component functions independently; the header, feeder house, thresher, separator, cleaning fan and straw chopper all ...

GRANITE, IOWA (KELO) — We all know tourism is big in South Dakota; it’s one of our leading economic industries, right behind agriculture. But just across the border into Iowa, there’s a hidden gem; a ...

The threshers are coming, the threshers are coming! Just what are, or were, the threshers? By definition, a thresher is a person who beats the husks and stems of a crop to separate the grain or seed ...

Herman Whitte drives a tractor pulling a baler at Atwater Threshing Days on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. Live demonstrations of threshing and baling let guests of the weekend event learn about farm life in ...

Threshing bees stem from the early 1900s, he said, when farmers couldn’t afford all of the necessary equipment to work their land. So, they’d turn it into a community event with neighbor helping ...

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 ...

While the step is expected to encourage 2 lakh employment opportunities, the decision will also bring national savings, Yogi ...

PEKIN, N.D. – The Stump Lake Village Threshing Bee will be held over Labor Day weekend, carrying on a 25-year tradition. The event on Sunday, Sept. 5, and Monday, Sept. 6, has been held on the first ...

Mechanisation as a tool for modernisation of agriculture has been well recognised as it generates greater crop intensity and as such improves productivity. It results in considerable saving of fodder ...

If you want to see how our forefathers farmed, you don’t need a time machine. You just need a way to get to Butterfield this weekend. The Threshing Bee, also known as the Steam and Gas Engine show, ...

ATWATER — Gentle country music tunes from the Terry Nelson Band were joined by the puttering of vintage motors chugging along as folks meandered through a wealth of exhibits on display during the ...

Durham >> April Pryor was clearly having a fun day. An old-time wagon from her family’s barn has been restored to like-new luster. Saturday was the wagon’s public debut during the annual two-day ...