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) — ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHESTERVILLE -- The new Illinois Amish Heritage Center will host its inaugural steam threshing show on Friday and Saturday at its new location on Illinois Route 133, three miles east of Arthur, and ...

Mechanical dinosaurs stretched their legs southwest of Worden over the weekend entertaining folks young and old. The antique farm machinery lacked power and speed but once again performed their ...

The 36th annual Steam Threshing Festival is set for June 7-9 at Heritage Park of North Iowa. This is a new date, this year, for the festival. The event will feature steam engines, flywheel engines and ...

Bob took 15 years to build this one sixth size machine. It was a labour of love and it is an accurate classic replica of an 1895 general purpose engine. Bob is an engineer with a farming background.

ROLLAG, Minn. - The machines may be old, but the spirit is young at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion. In the last few years, organizers have added activities meant to attract young gear ...

The 53rd annual Central North Dakota Steam Threshers Reunion will be Sept. 16-18 in New Rockford, N.D., featuring equipment by Avery Manufacturing, demonstrations of threshing and other old-time ...

McLEAN -- Beads of sweat mixed with dirt on Larry Roberts' forehead as his shovel struck a steel rim of the 1918 steam threshing machine at the Sugar Creek Farm north of McLean. Roberts, 67, of Normal ...

ST. CHARLES, Minn.-Everyone is welcome at Mike and Lynette Richter's hobby farm this weekend for their 10th annual St. Charles Threshing Bee. Mike and Lynette Richter will host the 10th Annual St.

ARTHUR — Steam Threshing Days will be held on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2 and 3, at the Illinois Amish Heritage Center, three miles east of Arthur. Attendees will see how crops were grown and ...