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 ...

Naper Settlement will be able to conserve a keystone artifact for its Agricultural Interpretive Center thanks to a $72,209 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. The money, ...

Naper Settlement is introducing the new “Thresher Experience” exhibit to the public, bringing to life a 1912 Wood Brothers Threshing Machine. The exhibit, which opened this spring for field trips, ...

MANKATO -- After pitching oats into a restored 1936 John Deere thresher in the muggy heat, Doug Hager climbed down from the hay wagon and wiped away the sweat running from under his cap. "This is the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 14—PELLA — A locally-based group of farm machinery enthusiasts put on a show for the south-central Iowa community at their ...

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 ...

The Forest City Threshers will offer historic activities – as well as honor John Deere tractors – at Forest City Thresher Days, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The event will feature live ...

A 21-year-old youth died after his iron bracelet got stuck in a paddy thresher machine while he was working in a village here on Wednesday, police said. The incident occurred around 10 am when the ...