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 ...
In response to the article From Field to Flour: How to Grow Wheat in the April/May 2014 issue, reader Jenna Winkeller wrote to us about a homemade device that can make small-scale wheat cultivation ...
Unseasonal rain and inclement weather over the past two days have severely impacted wheat harvesting and procurement in the ...
A chapter of the Maryland International Harvester Collectors Club put on a show this weekend in Union Bridge featuring an old-fashioned wheat threshing demonstration and a display of about 100 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Traveling down Georgetown Road you may have thought you stepped back in time. Glancing to the side of the road Saturday, many passers-by were treated to the sight of century-old steam and gas tractors ...