In response to the article From Field to Flour: How to Grow Wheat in the April/May 2014 issue, reader Jenna Winkeller wrote to us about a homemade device that can make small-scale wheat cultivation ...

The threshers are coming, the threshers are coming! Just what are, or were, the threshers? By definition, a thresher is a person who beats the husks and stems of a crop to separate the grain or seed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...