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 ...

The threshers are coming, the threshers are coming! Just what are, or were, the threshers? By definition, a thresher is a person who beats the husks and stems of a crop to separate the grain or seed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In years gone by, August was threshing time on the farms of eastern Ohio. When the fields of ripening wheat were golden brown, farmers in a particular neighborhood would come together and help each ...