Life on the Farm

Life on the Farm

Stories from the people who lived it. Interviews, old farmsteads, and everyday tools that show what daily life looked like on an American family farm.

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Life on the Farm
  • Life - The Legend of George H Ferris

    Slideshow of the pioneer family showing archived pictures from the late 19th and early 20th centuries

  • Life - Emily's Journey to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

    This short video chronicles her experience at the HLSR in March 2026

  • Life - Texas Wildflowers - Seven Minutes of Zen

    This is a video of spring wildflowers from Washington County Texas and vicinity in April 2025

  • Life - History of Wheat Harvest

    The Tri State Antique Engine and Threshermens Association display and demonstrate historic harvest machines including this rare Holt self propelled combine.

  • Life - Golden Harvest Days 2024

    An overview of the harvest activities at the annual demonstration on the Ebenshade farm.

  • Life - Payday! Corn Harvest 2019

    This field of approximately 125 acres of irrigated corn yielding in excess of 10,000 pounds of grain per acre is harvested in less than a day using modern machines. Each wagon requires a 200 horsepower tractor and is capable of holding 25 tons of grain. Enough grain to fill an 18 wheeler.

  • Life - RPRU Appliances

    This video shows a number of appliances made by International Harvester in the early part of the twentieth century. These were displayed at the Red Power Roundup in Grand Island NE in June of 2023

  • Life - Home Artifacts at the Tri State Show 2024

    This slideshow describes artifacts from life in western Kansas and eastern Colorado in the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Life - Demonstrations at the Bos Brothers Harvest Show 2024

    Sixteen minute video of the demonstrations and vendors at the Bos Brothers Harvest Show. Corn binding, corn picking, corn milling, blacksmithing, and many more.

  • Life - Bos Bros Show

    Before there was Amazon. Before there was the internet, people made yarn, clothing, iron tools, and other crafts that are no longer part of everyday life. A biannual show in central Illinois where farmers demonstrate skills that were commonly used at the turn of the twentieth century.

  • Life - From Field to Table

    This video shows the progression of corn from harvest to the dinner table. The equipment used in this demonstration are from the early twentieth century.