Fresh from the factory, 500-wagon-red, self-propelled combines drove north with the wheat harvest last week. The roving harvest brigade was big news on the farm front. Backer of the idea was Joseph M.

Few farmers enjoy the task of combine and harvest maintenance, but those who work around the machines on a daily basis are eager to point out the laborious project is worth the effort. Brian Jones, a ...

Before the age of combines, wheat, oats, rye and barley were harvested with a threshing machine. My earliest memory of threshing grain is with a steam engine and wooden threshing machine. In those ...