An odd thing happens when a farmer activates a combine system to match groundspeed to optimal grain threshing and separation: The combine generally slows down. “Combine operators often have a certain ...

A combine is a system that starts at the header and ends with the planter. No component functions independently; the header, feeder house, thresher, separator, cleaning fan and straw chopper all ...

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 ...

Heatwole Threshing Association held its 44th annual show this past weekend. Attendees watched log sawing, grain threshing, plowing, blacksmithing, tractor games and tractor pulling at the club’s show ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WAVERLY, Neb. (KOLN) - Whether you want to watch some butter being churned or corn being shelled, you can step back in time at an event about 20 minutes from Lincoln and get a look at Nebraska’s roots ...