NEWTON, Kan. -- The combine got its name by combining three separate harvest functions -- reaping, threshing and winnowing -- in one machine. Now, a Newton, Kan.-based company has introduced the ...

New Holland Agriculture has thrown down a grainy gauntlet to Claas, John Deere and the rest of the harvesting industry by releasing the CR10.90 – the world's most powerful combine harvester with ...

This is what motivated him to innovate a machine that makes the production process of the crop. ... For a harvest of 100 sacks of maize cobs, the farmer spends Shs200,000 on threshing and winnowing.

The plants were cut and brought to the threshing floor, crushed, and the pieces were thrown into the air with a winnowing fork. Chaff, being light, was carried away by the breeze.

Combine harvester machines, which look like tractors, are designed to carry out three harvesting tasks -- reaping, threshing and winnowing. They are equipped with a header to cut the crop, ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Improvement in Machine for Thrashing and Winnowing ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 20 No. 20 (May 1869), p. 305 doi:10.1038 ...

It was the first machine to combine threshing with fanning. The Ground Hog was patented by Hiram A. and John A. Pitts, of Winthrop, Maine, in ... usually not as wealthy as those who chose to play it ...

Combine harvesters get their name from their ability to carry out three separate operations - reaping, threshing and winnowing. But if these dramatic snaps are any indication, you can add smashing ...

For more than 50 years, the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. (MTM) hired hundreds of Czech and Scandinavian workers to build massive machines that transported farmers into the 20th century.