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 ...

An odd thing happens when a farmer activates a combine system to match groundspeed to optimal grain threshing and separation: The combine generally slows down. “Combine operators often have a certain ...

Heatwole Threshing Association held its 44th annual show this past weekend. Attendees watched log sawing, grain threshing, plowing, blacksmithing, tractor games and tractor pulling at the club’s show ...

Harvesting small grains on the farm was always a major task each summer. Farmers needed to cut the wheat or oats, tie them into bundles and when dried, load the bundles onto horse-drawn racks to bring ...

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 ...

WAVERLY, Neb. (KOLN) - Whether you want to watch some butter being churned or corn being shelled, you can step back in time at an event about 20 minutes from Lincoln and get a look at Nebraska’s roots ...

The Ground Hog Thresher got its name from its squat posture and from the rumbling and growling noises it made as it ground the grain. Threshing, the separation of the stalk and chaff from the grain, ...

The 15th annual Stump Lake Village Threshing Bee, hosted by the Nelson County (N.D.) Historical Society, will be Sunday and Monday at Stump Lake Park. Here's a schedule: - 8 a.m. Church service. - 10 ...