Reader Jenna Winkeller of Gilbert, Ariz., wrote to us about a homemade device that can make small-scale wheat cultivation far more efficient: a DIY wheat thresher crafted from just a bucket, drill ...

Note: The Sylvantec foot-powered thresher is no longer available from Sylvantec; however, foot-powered threshers are still useful tools for small-scale grain processing.

People get stuck on [need for] combine [harvesting], threshing, cleaning. Establishing something like that here would be a huge incentive.” Silver is considering purchasing a larger stone mill and ...

Watch skilled workers and machines work together to create these useful tools for farming ... The Skills. Inside the Factory Amazing Wheat Thresher Machine Production. Posted: November 16, 2024 ...

Setting aside the environmental costs of big-scale agriculture, giant Great Plains grain farms are amazingly efficient. Wheat farms may run 2,000, 5,000, and 10,000 acres—or bigger—and they ...

For 80-plus years, from 1870 until the last production threshing machine by a major farm equipment rolled off the line in 1956 or so, harvesting was done like this.