Aug. 14—PELLA — A locally-based group of farm machinery enthusiasts put on a show for the south-central Iowa community at their annual oats threshing demonstration, where they used antique farm ...

ATWATER — With the sun beating down in a wide-open field Saturday morning, Ron Hennes, Dean Stenberg and Tony Anderson walked up and down a seven-acre stubble field grabbing bundles of oats that they ...

Jeff Jensen and his wife, Nicole, use pitch forks to load straw and thresh oats during the 16th annual threshing bee. HAYFIELD — Threshing oats is fun, threshing oats is something Russell Jensen looks ...

EDINBURGH - I'm generations removed from farming, so looking at the machinery on display at the Edinburgh Folk Festival was an eye-opening experience. And once the threshing demonstration started, it ...

Norskedalen’s Annual Threshing Bee moved from September to August, but the move came up short when someone forgot to line up oats for the threshing machine demonstration. The old-fashioned threshing ...

HAYFIELD, Minn. - Threshing oats is fun, threshing oats is something Russell Jensen looks forward to each year on his farm east of Hayfield, near Oslo. That, however, is a 180-degree shift from how he ...

On Saturday morning, July 27, Forest city FFA students, under the watchful eye of FFA Advisor Ryan Faught, loaded more than 3,000 oat bundles on wagons. The oats were readied for processing with ...

While new inventions and innovations revolutionize industries, farming has always remained a constant for Marlin Gady’s 81 years of life. And threshing has been a large part of that constant lifestyle ...

A small community in west Kerry has rolled backed the years ahead of 'rolling the oats' by organising a novel threshing event. Hundreds came to the Griffin farm in Lios Póil to witness the harvesting ...

Bob Nesselroad, a volunteer at Living History Farms in Des Moines, Iowa, stands on an antique steam tractor during a threshing demonstration in August 2022. (Rox Laird/Courthouse News) (CN) — ...

The sight of a field filled with shocks of oats or an old abandoned threshing machine rekindles memories of days long ago. What was once a common sight on most farms is now the exception, unless you ...

Ninety-three-year-old Keith Oderkirk of Haines City was a farmer for 40 years and knows firsthand the merits of reliable machinery. Like his antique oil stove, patented in 1883. Or his six small gas ...