GRANITE, IOWA (KELO) — The Threshing Bee in Granite ... work and what they did in the hard work with the corn and the wheat. And just to show what it used to be like to live back then ...

It can still thresh oats,barley and wheat. When used on the farms it took ten people to work it and threshing was a real community event. Combine harvesters now operate with only two people.

People feed wheat into a thresher while giving a demonstration to the public during the Atwater Threshing Days on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, in Atwater.