Humboldt Threshing Bee

This annual event in Humboldt, South Dakota features live action of wheat reaping, a push header in oat field, horse drawn plowing, horse drawn machines, vintage manure spreader collection, belt driven ensilage machine as well as an old fashioned farmer horse pull. Joe begins with an interview with the original organizers, Lowell Grave, Dean Johnson and Henry Hansen Heintzen. They explain the origins of the event. In 1989 after Humbldt’s 100th Anniversary celebration, they decided to continue the threshing