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massey harris steve

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Yesterday The wife and I went to the local Threshermen' Association Fall festival. As always they did the usual wheat threshing but also did soybeans.We have never seen or heard of it with beans before. Our parents grew up on the farm. but never talked about soybean threshing, just wheat. Anyone have any knowledge or eperience with soybean threshing?
 
Soybeans were a small crop when I was a youngster. Those who raised them used them for hay or forage. By the time they became a cash crop combines were numerous so they were not 'threshed.' At the time corn was picked, shucked and shelled not run thru a combine.
 
I can not give you the dates but my dad did the threshing for local farmers. He said one year several came to him and asked if he would thresh the new crop, "soybeans" for them. He ordered the slow speed kit for the machine for the next year. Combines came and he never used it. The oldest combine I remember was a large Case, probably 10 or 12 foor cut. I would say maybe right before the depression?
 
Thanks for the info. I talked to some of the more experienced people at churh this morning and basicly got the same answer. When Dad was farming we had a New Idea 1 row corn picker, but we opened the fields by shucking by hand. Labor was plentliful around our farm as I'm #4 of 6 sons.
Thanks again.
 
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