VIDEO: Threshermen on the threshold of a Guinness World Record

From the Manitoba Agricultural Museum, Harvesting Hope: A World Record to Help the Hungry

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Published: August 4, 2016

With the help of a wooden Nichols & Shepard thresher and a 1912 Rumely tractor, Helmut Neufeld, Garth Crooks and their team of threshermen get ready to lend their efforts to break the Guinness World Record for the “most threshing machines operating simultaneously.” In this video, get an up-close look at each machine as the two men talk about their history and what it took to prepare the antiques for the Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion & Stampede held in Austin, Manitoba, at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum on July 31, 2016.

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Greg Berg

Greg Berg

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Greg Berg was born and raised in the potash capital of the world of Esterhazy, Saskatchewan. Greg helped out on the family homestead farm near Stockholm, Sask., for a number of years in his youth. Greg graduated from the Creative Communications program at Red River College in 2011 and joined Glacier FarmMedia in 2014. He specializes in video production and is a songwriter in his spare time.

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