When this country was new and farming meant the difference between life and starvation, the men and women who tilled the ground planted winter heat, tended it through the spring and prepared for the ...
It takes quite a bit of work to get ready for the annual Camp Creek Threshers show outside of Waverly. One process involves harvesting wheat for the threshing machines. We visited with Fred Fleming ...
Matt Folstad had an idea: Rather than mow his 2 acres of yard every summer, why not plow it up and plant wheat on it? That was the start of his backyard threshing bee. Folstad, 38, works as a truck ...
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 ...
Columnist Mychal Wilmes reflects on when his dad depended more on his weather vane than a weather forecast for harvesting his crop. Though he concedes a combine and a truck without holes in the box is ...
FEDERALSBURG The Eastern Shore Threshermen and Collectors Association will celebrate 50 years of the annual Wheat Threshing, Steam & Gas Engine Show from Friday through Sunday at its showgrounds ...
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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 ...