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 ...

In Coon Valley on Saturday, people gathered over an old time harvest. Norskedalen hosted the “back to nature” threshing bee. The event recreates a celebration from hundreds of years ago when farmers ...

Threshing flail of wood, leather and metal. The flail includes three wooden poles used to beat the grain. In the second half of the nineteenth century, new technologies and the increase in mass ...

Mechanisation as a tool for modernisation of agriculture has been well recognised as it generates greater crop intensity and as such improves productivity. It results in considerable saving of fodder ...