CURRENT HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday 9am-4pm (last tractor cart to farms leaves at 2:30)
Every year since 1970, we’ve invited guests to help us bring in the harvest using methods from centuries past. A key part of the harvest was threshing, or separating seeds from stalks.
1850 Pioneer Farm: Try threshing by hand with an old-fashioned flail, 9:30–11 a.m. and 1–4 p.m.
1900 Farm: Demonstrations of a gasoline-powered thresher, 10–11 a.m. and 1–4 p.m.
Be sure to allow time for the tractor cart ride to and from the farm sites
Walnut Hill: Tractor parade, 12:30 p.m.
“Tractor Wars II” focuses on the years 1929-1959 when companies worked to bring mechanized farming to everyday rural life. International Harvester, Ford and John Deere fought for market supremacy through the Great Depression and World War II. By the 1950s they were all looking at how their designs fit into the equation of power and affordability.
Followed by a panel discussion celebrating the International Year of the Woman Farmer.
RSVP requested
Learning Center, 11 a.m.
11121 HICKMAN, URBANDALE • 515-278-5286
— THANK YOU TO OUR 2026 PREMIER PARTNERS —
Official Modern Agricultural Equipment Partner
