GRANITE, IOWA (KELO) — The Threshing Bee in Granite, Iowa, is the largest free admission show in the Midwest and the goal of the event is to bring people back to the basics of farming. The town of ...

GRANITE, IOWA (KELO) — We all know tourism is big in South Dakota; it’s one of our leading economic industries, right behind agriculture. But just across the border into Iowa, there’s a hidden gem; a ...

Aug. 14—PELLA — A locally-based group of farm machinery enthusiasts put on a show for the south-central Iowa community at their annual oats threshing demonstration, where they used antique farm ...

Threshing bees stem from the early 1900s, he said, when farmers couldn’t afford all of the necessary equipment to work their land. So, they’d turn it into a community event with neighbor helping ...

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 ...

PEKIN, N.D. – The Stump Lake Village Threshing Bee will be held over Labor Day weekend, carrying on a 25-year tradition. The event on Sunday, Sept. 5, and Monday, Sept. 6, has been held on the first ...

Matt Folstad had an idea: Rather than mow his 2 acres of yard every summer, why not plow it up and plant wheat on it? That was the start of his backyard threshing bee. Folstad, 38, works as a truck ...

If you want to see how our forefathers farmed, you don’t need a time machine. You just need a way to get to Butterfield this weekend. The Threshing Bee, also known as the Steam and Gas Engine show, ...

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 ...