Returned to the family after three-quarters of a century Delbert Miller learned that his wife’s great-grandfather had built a ...

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 ...

Around 1946, when Carol Ringler was barely big enough to see over the steering wheel, she climbed into the seat of a red International Harvester Farmall B tractor and slowly inched it up and down 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 ...

Heatwole Threshing Association held its 44th annual show this past weekend. Attendees watched log sawing, grain threshing, plowing, blacksmithing, tractor games and tractor pulling at the club’s show ...

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 ...

The Ground Hog Thresher got its name from its squat posture and from the rumbling and growling noises it made as it ground the grain. Threshing, the separation of the stalk and chaff from the grain, ...

Kansas author Glenn Ediger left no threshing stone unturned as he embarked on a historical treasure hunt for the tools used by the Mennonites who settled in and around central Kansas. From his own ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Folks from all over are headed to Meriden, Kansas this weekend to show off their antique engines. Engines of any kind are welcome here at the 45th annual Meriden Threshing Show ...

The 15th annual Stump Lake Village Threshing Bee, hosted by the Nelson County (N.D.) Historical Society, will be Sunday and Monday at Stump Lake Park. Here's a schedule: - 8 a.m. Church service. - 10 ...

Threshing flail of wood, leather and metal. The flail includes three wooden poles used to beat the grain. In the second half of the nineteenth century, new technologies and the increase in mass ...

Any innovation with a half-century worth of staying power deserves some recognition. That includes New Holland’s transformative Twin Rotor combine technology (pictured below), which was invented by a ...