In mid-morning and mid-afternoons, kids carried dishpans laden with “delicious sandwiches,” coffee and water out to the crew ...

A good farm dog was valuable and greatly appreciated, both as a loyal friend and an indispensable co-worker. “Every good farmer had to have a good farm dog,” informed one anonymous man, interviewed in ...

Wencil Kalchik with the steam engine, threshing machine and of the neighborhood crews moving to the next job. Photo from Randa Fredrickson Collection The following is an excerpt from “A History of ...

Skip Dufour, left, and Robert Willis — the two original founders of the Upper Peninsula Steam and Gas Engine Association — stand before a roughly 90-year-old threshing machine ahead of the 50th-annual ...

A volunteer uses a pitchfork to toss a sheaf of wheat into a threshing machine at the Bos Bros Fall Harvest. (Shaw Local News Network photo/Earleen Hinton) ERIE, Ill. — Old-time wheat threshing with ...

People from as far away as Canada turned out again this year to watch a community tradition, the 63 rd Five Point Steam Threshers reunion. Held Sunday, the annual event featured area farmers using ...

SYMCO, Wisconsin – Advancements in technology have greatly improved farming efficiency in the past few decades, with GPS precision planting, computerized harvesting equipment and more. However, ...

Part of the Twin River crew, from left to right: Lila Fechner, Mike Fechner, Bryan Neugebauer, Glennis Stern, George Sandhoff, and Dan Kurtenbach. Since it was first organized in 2003, the Twin Rivers ...

Long before tractors revolutionized American agriculture in the 1930s, a different machine was already transforming the harvest: the threshing machine. In 1847, Daniel Massey launched the Newcastle ...

In 2012, when a close friend told Tyler Roudebush of Waunakee, Wis., about finding a Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. steam engine with the serial number 8547, he decided to see for himself. The ...