The Dauphin Agricultural Heritage Clubs' 22nd Annual Threshing day took place on Saturday and the event was a huge success. Heritage Club President Dennis Forbes says the organization was so happy to have the event back this year.
"This is one of the best things going, I mean we were kind of pouty the last few years not being able to hold it and showcase what we do to the public and so on. We're just looking forward to a very good day today and we do it mostly just because we like playing with this old equipment."
The event had already been pushed back a week due to the late harvest, and a frost warning in the forecast for Saturday morning wasn't enough to stop the Heritage Club. Shortly after the event began, the clouds went away and it was a beautiful day for threshing.
"The people that are coming out, it's 10 o'clock here today and they're showing up already, it indicates that there is interest within the community and that just makes it all the better."
Even though this year's event had to be scaled back slightly because of the date change, the Heritage Club gave attendees a look into how harvest used to be done with cutting, binding, stooking, and threshing demonstrations.
