Jul 25, 2012 Jul 25, 2012 Updated Jun 12, 2015 COLUMBIA — The sun blazed down on the heads of men putting pitchforks of soft red wheat into the thresher. Members of the Woodlandville United Methodist ...

When Natalie Marrone began research for her dance, “Thresh,” a meditation on wheat and the old ways of harvesting it, she did not have to go far afield. “My dad grew up threshing wheat,” Marrone said ...

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 ...

DURHAM — Remnants of farming times past were resurrected at the Patrick Ranch Museum on Saturday. The 16th annual Threshing Bee presented a live-action history lesson on wheat harvest. The historical ...

KONNER METZ [email protected] Aug 5, 2025 Aug 5, 2025 0 FEDERALSBURG — In 1961, Jim Layton and some neighbors gathered off of Route 313 to thresh wheat using one steam engine. That modest ...

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 ...

Tens of thousands of people who belong to villages and work in different cities, including Rawalpindi and Islamabad, have returned to their villages to help their families in wheat crop harvesting and ...

For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

Kansas author Glenn Ediger left no threshing stone unturned as he embarked on a historical treasure hunt for the tools used by the Mennonites who settled in and around central Kansas. From his own ...