CURRENT HOURS: Programs by reservation November-April
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
1900 Farm: Watch demonstrations of a gasoline-powered thresher
Walnut Hill: Tractor display and parade display
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Mary and Dale Andringa
Bayer Crop Science
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Iowa Economic Development Authority
Iowa Machine Shed
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Kemin Industries
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Polk County
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R.W. and Mary Nelson
Prairie Meadows
Todd and Connie Rueter
Charles and Kathy Safris
Stephen Smith
Sukup Manufacturing Co.
City of Urbandale
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