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 ...

A chapter of the Maryland International Harvester Collectors Club put on a show this weekend in Union Bridge featuring an old-fashioned wheat threshing demonstration and a display of about 100 ...

Traveling down Georgetown Road you may have thought you stepped back in time. Glancing to the side of the road Saturday, many passers-by were treated to the sight of century-old steam and gas tractors ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...