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 smell of burning coal, steam and dust hang in the air over the grounds of the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion near Rollag. The hamlet of 23 will swell to an expected 50,000 over the ...

Before the age of combines, wheat, oats, rye and barley were harvested with a threshing machine. My earliest memory of threshing grain is with a steam engine and wooden threshing machine. In those ...

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 ...

CHESTERVILLE -- The new Illinois Amish Heritage Center will host its inaugural steam threshing show on Friday and Saturday at its new location on Illinois Route 133, three miles east of Arthur, and ...

The 36th annual Steam Threshing Festival is set for June 7-9 at Heritage Park of North Iowa. This is a new date, this year, for the festival. The event will feature steam engines, flywheel engines and ...

Bob took 15 years to build this one sixth size machine. It was a labour of love and it is an accurate classic replica of an 1895 general purpose engine. Bob is an engineer with a farming background.

The 53rd annual Central North Dakota Steam Threshers Reunion will be Sept. 16-18 in New Rockford, N.D., featuring equipment by Avery Manufacturing, demonstrations of threshing and other old-time ...

ROLLAG, Minn. - The machines may be old, but the spirit is young at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion. In the last few years, organizers have added activities meant to attract young gear ...

FOREST CITY | North Iowa residents may be used to seeing large tractors moving through farm fields, even they don't live on a farm. What's not as familiar is a big steel-wheel steam engine powering a ...

ARTHUR — Steam Threshing Days will be held on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2 and 3, at the Illinois Amish Heritage Center, three miles east of Arthur. Attendees will see how crops were grown and ...

ST. CHARLES, Minn.-Everyone is welcome at Mike and Lynette Richter's hobby farm this weekend for their 10th annual St. Charles Threshing Bee. Mike and Lynette Richter will host the 10th Annual St.