Grain engulfment causes four to five deaths every year in the United States. On Friday, there was a training for both employees and emergency crews on how to rescue people trapped in grain. It was ...

Heatwole Threshing Association held its 44th annual show this past weekend. Attendees watched log sawing, grain threshing, plowing, blacksmithing, tractor games and tractor pulling at the club’s show ...

A combine is a system that starts at the header and ends with the planter. No component functions independently; the header, feeder house, thresher, separator, cleaning fan and straw chopper all ...

Harvesting small grains on the farm was always a major task each summer. Farmers needed to cut the wheat or oats, tie them into bundles and when dried, load the bundles onto horse-drawn racks to bring ...

BUTTERFIELD, Minn. — The Butterfield Threshermen’s Association recently hosted their 45th Threshing Bee. "The site of the show was land given to the city of Butterfield in 1941 by A.R. Voss, a ...

Before the valuable kernel of grain can be used to make bread or other food, it must be separated from the useless outer shell, the chaff. Today, machines in the field or in factories quickly separate ...

The 16th annual Stump Lake Village Threshing Bee will be Sept. 4-5 at the entrance of Stump Lake Park, 10 miles south of Lakota, N.D., and 10 miles north of Pekin, N.D. on state Highway 1. The Labor ...

The 14th annual Stump Lake Village Threshing Bee will be Sunday and Monday of Labor Day Weekend at Stump Lake Park, 10 miles south of Lakota, N.D., and 10 miles north of Pekin, N.D., on state Highway ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moisture levels are going to be all over the board when combines roll this fall. In high-moisture situations, a few simple combine adjustments can minimize grain damage. To dial in your combine, it’s ...

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 ...