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 ...

Frank — serious as a farm mechanic can be when necessary and by turns a practical joker — drove his classic Stearns-Knight from its shed a couple times in summer. The Stearns-Knight, which was a ...

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Although agricultural technology continues to evolve as it has over the last century, there is a dedicated group of individuals who strive to preserve the machines that made it ...

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) — ...

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 ...

Joe Feist of Ballentine operates his antique threshing machine at the 14th Annual Threshing Bee at Osborn Park Sunday morning near Huntley. Feist's rig received plenty of attention, being the only non ...

If you didn’t get enough old farm machinery during Orange Spectacular this past weekend, you’ll be happy to know the 40th annual Heatwole Thresher Show is coming to McLeod County. The popular event, ...

Threshing shows and old machinery will be featured at Heritage Hill, Hanley Falls, Atwater and Forest City, with a Summer Rendezvous also taking place at the Forest City Stockade during the threshers ...

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 ...