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 ...

DURHAM >> Running their fingers through wheat kernels, three girls waited Sunday morning to thresh the wheat they and their eighth grade class had grown and harvested. Rebekah Edwards, 14, ...

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 ...

Better threshing is afoot with this innovative, small-scale grain processor now available in the United States. Growing your own grains is no more difficult than growing most other garden crops, and ...

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 ...

Outside Valmeyer last week you could almost imagine you were back 100 years, watching a binder pulled by a team of mules cut wheat and tie it in bundles so workers could gather it and build shocks. Of ...

The agriculture experts have advised the farmers to ensure that wheat bundles used during threshing are free from hard objects like stones or metal pieces to prevent machinery damage and ensure smooth ...

The official start to summer was June 21, the longest day of the year when the sun is directly overhead. Farmers recognize the start of summer with barley and wheat harvest at this time of year and ...

Vol. 58, No. 2, Special Issue: Integrated Approaches to Sustain and Improve Plant Production under Drought Stress (2007), pp. 131-145 (15 pages) Wheat is one of the founder crops of Western ...