Jul 25, 2012 Jul 25, 2012 Updated Jun 12, 2015 COLUMBIA — The sun blazed down on the heads of men putting pitchforks of soft red wheat into the thresher. Members of the Woodlandville United Methodist ...

It takes quite a bit of work to get ready for the annual Camp Creek Threshers show outside of Waverly. One process involves harvesting wheat for the threshing machines. We visited with Fred Fleming ...

HOLMDEL— It was hard enough to thresh wheat in 1890 but add in a bumper crop of weeds and the thistles fly all over the place. Staff at the Historic Longstreet Farm in Holmdel harvested the one acre ...

MERIDEN — In a few days, a McCormick-Deering threshing machine at the Cottonwood Station grounds east of Meriden will be powered by an antique tractor to harvest grains of wheat. Volunteers will use ...

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 ...

When this country was new and farming meant the difference between life and starvation, the men and women who tilled the ground planted winter heat, tended it through the spring and prepared for the ...

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 ...