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 ...

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 ...

The field closest to the family farmhouse at the Burrier Linganore Farm featured old tractors on display, large wagons stacked with sheaves of wheat and vintage threshing machines — not to mention a ...

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, ...