Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iseki is a Japanese agricultural machinery manufacturing company that aims to modernize Japanese agriculture. Its rice harvesting ...

Frank — serious as a farm mechanic can be when necessary and by turns a practical joker — drove his classic Stearns-Knight from its shed a couple times in summer. The Stearns-Knight, which was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hopkins, today, is easy to shrug off as just another suburb in the westward sprawl. But its history and growth are well-defined as the longtime home of an innovative, all-but-forgotten farm machinery ...

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 ...

The evolution of agricultural machinery has been pivotal in transforming crop harvesting into a highly efficient, precision‐driven operation. Threshing technology, in particular, has advanced from ...

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 ...

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 ...