Traditional grain harvesting required separate cutting, binding, and threshing operations. The mechanical reaper, invented in 1831 by Cyrus McCormick, performed the cutting, but it required that laborers follow the machine in the field to bind the...

The combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine that combines the tasks of harvesting, threshing, and cleaning grain crops. The objective is the harvest of the crop; corn (maize), soybeans, flax (linseed), oats, wheat, or rye among others). The...

Combine to harvest state talent Football players gather at Camp Randall today By DAVID BOEHLER of the Journal Sentinel staff Saturday, May 19, 2001 More than 200 football players will be running, jumping, lifting and sprinting in every nook...

Auto demolition derbies also this week in Lebanon LEBANON - Warren County's first combine demolition derby started with a bang Tuesday evening. Greg Griffin of Carlisle, driver of the 'Green Reaper,' knocked out the Best of Show vehicle driven by fair President...

There were so many war films at the Toronto Film Festival that all I could think of was Virginia Mayo’s line in King Richard and the Crusaders: “Oh, fight, fight, fight! That’s all you ever think of, Dickie Plantagenet!” After witnessing bloody battles in Rwanda,...