ROLLAG, Minn. - The machines may be old, but the spirit is young at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion. In the last few years, organizers have added activities meant to attract young gear ...

ROLLAG, Minn. — Hundreds of tractors took to the dirt roads of the township of Rollag, Minn., northeast of Barnesville, during the annual Western Minnesota Steam Threshers' Reunion in Rollag, ...

FOREST CITY | North Iowa residents may be used to seeing large tractors moving through farm fields, even they don't live on a farm. What's not as familiar is a big steel-wheel steam engine powering a ...

Manning the steam engine’s threshing demonstration, while other enthusiasts volunteered with pitch forks on the flat rack, were Mike Rohde of Boone and Brandon Salmen of Sioux Falls. Salmen’s young ...

KONNER METZ kmetz@chespub.com Aug 5, 2025 Aug 5, 2025 0 FEDERALSBURG — In 1961, Jim Layton and some neighbors gathered off of Route 313 to thresh wheat using one steam engine. That modest ...

ROLLAG, Minn. -- The first official Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion opened its doors to the public in 1954. But it's actually been 70 years since the tradition started. According to the ...

The town of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, sits in Iowa’s southeast corner, in the middle of gently rolling fields of corn and soybeans. Over the recent Labor Day weekend, its normal population of about 9,000 ...

PINCKEYVILLE – The 55th annual American Thresherman Association's Steam, Gas and Threshing Show is set for Wednesday through Sunday, Aug. 13 to 17, at Perry County Fairgrounds. One of the longest ...

Steam engines well over a century old are chugging to life this afternoon in southeast Iowa as the annual Midwest Old Threshers Reunion gets underway in Mount Pleasant. Event spokesman Grant Davidson ...

STRATHCONA, Minn. - In September 1965 Marshall Wiskow thought it would be fun to fire up the old steam engine in his pasture and invite his neighbors over for a threshing bee. About 200 people came to ...