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 ...

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 ...

What’s old is new again. After a year off, the Heatwole Threshing Show returns this weekend for its 42nd year. It’s a salute to the farming methods of yesterday. This year’s featured equipment brands ...

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) — ...

Steam tractors, threshing machines, printing presses and other antique machines will be operating. Demonstrations will be held, along with a flea market and craft show, games for kids, food and ...

STRATHCONA, Minn. - In September 1965 Marshall Wiskow thought it would be fun to fire up the old steam engine in his pasture and invite his neighbors over for a threshing bee. About 200 people came to ...

People set up a sawmill to give demonstrations to the public during the Good Old Days & Pioneer Threshing Show in Hanley Falls on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024.

St. Albert, Ont., 50 kilometres southeast of downtown Ottawa, has reclaimed its threshing world record. The town held the world's largest threshing event Sunday with 243 threshing machines operating ...