Before the age of combines, wheat, oats, rye and barley were harvested with a threshing machine. My earliest memory of threshing grain is with a steam engine and wooden threshing machine. In those ...

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 ...

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) — ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Ronald Miller of Geneseo, Illinois, ...