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 ...

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 ...

KONNER METZ [email protected] Aug 5, 2025 Aug 5, 2025 0 FEDERALSBURG — In 1961, Jim Layton and some neighbors gathered off of Route 313 to thresh wheat using one steam engine. That modest ...

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 ...

For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - At Lee Lashaway’s Perrysburg Township farm, the smell of sweet corn and butter drifted through the air, while a long line of people snaked through the front of the field in wait of ...

DURHAM — Remnants of farming times past were resurrected at the Patrick Ranch Museum on Saturday. The 16th annual Threshing Bee presented a live-action history lesson on wheat harvest. The historical ...

Everybody hates wheat now. It’s maligned as a cause of several health problems. We’re told it makes us fat. It’s bad for your gut. It slows your mental processing down. The list goes on, much of it ...

When Natalie Marrone began research for her dance, “Thresh,” a meditation on wheat and the old ways of harvesting it, she did not have to go far afield. “My dad grew up threshing wheat,” Marrone said ...

Leo Tolstoy, his long beard white, stood beside a horse in a photograph on a screen under the Yale Farm’s Lazarus Pavilion. A second image showed an aerial photograph of the author’s estate, Yasnaya ...

Kansas author Glenn Ediger left no threshing stone unturned as he embarked on a historical treasure hunt for the tools used by the Mennonites who settled in and around central Kansas. From his own ...