Most farms in Ryanggang province have been unable to use their threshing machines because of a lack of electricity.

For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

When Natalie Marrone began research for her dance, “Thresh,” a meditation on wheat and the old ways of harvesting it, she did not have to go far afield. “My dad grew up threshing wheat,” Marrone said ...