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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PEKIN, N.D. -- Wheat chaff spewed, smoke blew and the kitchen crew's hands flew as history came alive across Stump Lake Village Monday, Sept. 2, during the 24th annual threshing bee. This is the 24th ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATWATER — With the sun beating down in a wide-open field Saturday morning, Ron Hennes, Dean Stenberg and Tony Anderson walked up and down a seven-acre stubble field grabbing bundles of oats that they ...

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, ...

KHULNA, Nov 16, 2025 (BSS) - Farmers across the Khulna region are passing busy days with harvesting and threshing ...