January 3, 2011

Chaff flies out the end of the thresher as Somrudee Onto collects grain samples at the base of the machine and other workers wait in line with their samples. The thresher is not high tech but a reliable piece of machinery built in the 1950s. Grad students and summer workers harvest and thresh wheat by hand Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Two rows from each plot are cut, carried to the thresher and individually bagged as part of the research. There are more than 6,000 test plots and 50,000 rows of wheat, barley and triticale in fields around Lincoln and many more in other test areas across the state. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications