Before the valuable kernel of grain can be used to make bread or other food, it must be separated from the useless outer shell, the chaff. Today, machines in the field or in factories quickly separate ...

Threshing is a time-honored process intricately woven into the fabric of agricultural history. The process of separating grains from their encasing husks, or chaff, is a task that endured the test of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The barn on the former Carr farm is rare, even more so than Fred Woller knew when he set about restoring it. Not only is it old — built 12 years before the start of the American Civil War — but it is ...

Ward W. O'Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum, special to The Citizen Ward W. O’Hara was a founder of the Agricultural & Country Living Museum that bears his name, located at Emerson Park in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...