ROLLAG, Minn. - Clad in overalls and baseball caps with Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion buttons, the Aakre family carries on a 60-year family tradition. Since the reunion started in 1954, ...

After the smoke, the thousands of visitors and the rhythmic thumping sounds of the massive century-old steam engines have vanished from the grounds of the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion in ...

ROLLAG, Minn. (Valley News Live) - The steam engine is rolling in Rollag, Minnesota for the annual Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion. The annual tradition has been happening over the Labor Day ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...