Returned to the family after three-quarters of a century Delbert Miller learned that his wife’s great-grandfather had built a ...

Restoring a steam engine is a bigger task than refurbishing a tractor or pickup truck. Just ask Austin Chapman and Caleb Kearney, who recently drove their restored 1914 Rumley steam engine from a farm ...

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 ...

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) — ...

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 ...

After farm dust disrupted her classroom, a UP schoolgirl built a dust-free threshing machine. Her Rs 3,000 idea earned ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Calling all farmers – past, present and future – and farming aficionados! It’s the 43rd annual Heatwole Threshing Show this weekend – Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13-14 – about 6 miles southwest of ...

Dennis bought this working machine in 1978. It was originally sold at the Bath and West Show in 1929. The machine was built in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and is made of oak and ash. It can still ...