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 ...

MANKATO -- After pitching oats into a restored 1936 John Deere thresher in the muggy heat, Doug Hager climbed down from the hay wagon and wiped away the sweat running from under his cap. "This is 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 ...

The machine he and others were demonstrating at the Pioneer Power show outside Le Sueur over the weekend was a model that could be operated with a steam engine, or in this case, old-fashioned horse ...

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 ...

ROLLAG, Minn. — Under a glassy-blue Minnesota sky, a billow of smoke comes from a steam-powered tractor, hurking itself across the landscape as it pulls ink-black earth to the sun. The land is being ...

When mid-August rolls around, my thoughts always revert back to harvest time back in the 1940s and 1950s when this aging writer was a youth eager to take on any task asked of him. The old threshing ...

It makes one wonder what we might put up there next. Will it be hay balers and grain trucks or Studebakers and hippie vans? One cow on a hilltop in New Salem, a giant bison guarding Jamestown and an ...

Calling all farmers – past, present and future – and farming aficionados! It’s the 43rd annual Heatwole Threshing Show this weekend – Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13-14 – about 6 miles southwest of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Ronald Miller of Geneseo, Illinois, ...