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 ...

Grain engulfment causes four to five deaths every year in the United States. On Friday, there was a training for both employees and emergency crews on how to rescue people trapped in grain. It was ...

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 ...

Durham >> The Patrick Ranch was alive with history Saturday for the 15th annual Threshing Bee, bringing folks closer to a time when wheat was watered through rainfall and animals were very much a part ...

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 ...

Before the valuable kernel of grain can be used to make bread or other food, it must be separated from the useless outer shell, the chaff. Today, machines in the field or in factories quickly separate ...