Growing up, I spent every summer on my grandmother’s farm in South Carolina, and she would often use farming metaphors to teach me lessons. Every time a boy broke my heart, or I dealt with racism, she ...

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 ...

Threshing is a time-honored process intricately woven into the fabric of agricultural history. The process of separating grains from their encasing husks, or chaff, is a task that endured the test of ...

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 ...

Mechanisation as a tool for modernisation of agriculture has been well recognised as it generates greater crop intensity and as such improves productivity. It results in considerable saving of fodder ...

BUTTERFIELD — The Butterfield Threshing Bee started with $100 and a 1916 Case steam engine. Now the Bee is celebrating its 50th year of drawing about 15,000 people to a shady campground in this town ...

TAXILA: Taking advantage of the sunny days, farmers in Taxila have started wheat harvesting and threshing after the unexpected rains a couple of days ago damaged their crops. Harvesting and threshing ...

When I was in the Leicestershire and Rutland Women's Land Army in the early 1940's, some of the time I worked as 'band cutter' for Mr. Arthur Story and his son Mr. Bill Story of 'The Firs' Barrowden, ...