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 ...

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 ...

Columnist Mychal Wilmes reflects on when his dad depended more on his weather vane than a weather forecast for harvesting his crop. Though he concedes a combine and a truck without holes in the box is ...

Today’s Wabash Valley History is brought to you by Lynn’s Pharmacy in Downtown Brazil. Today's photo is from the Vigo County ...

The Ground Hog Thresher got its name from its squat posture and from the rumbling and growling noises it made as it ground the grain. Threshing, the separation of the stalk and chaff from the grain, ...

When mid-August rolls around, my thoughts always revert back to harvest time back in the 1940s and 1950s when this aging writer was a youth eager to take on any task asked of him. The old threshing ...