What is Threshing?

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What is Threshing?

Answer 1

Threshing is the process of beating cereal plants in order to separate the seeds or grains from the straw. Although once done by hand using a flail on a threshing floor, this tiring task is now mostly done by machine. Threshing is one of the tasks a combine harvester performs, along with harvesting the plant and cleaning the grains. In some places, it is common to see plants spread along the surface of country roads so the grain may be threshed by the wheels of passing vehicles. Although threshing removes the straw and the chaff, it does not remove the bran.

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Answer 2

How they get wheat off of the stalk, it is now done with combines......

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Answer 3

Threshing is a post harvest operation of small grain crops where the grains are separated from the stalk .

Answer 4

the rice grain is separated from the chaff by beating it .this is called threshing

Answer 5

the type of wheat

Answer 6

Threshing is the process of beating cereal plants in order to separate the seeds or grains from the straw. Although once done by hand using a flail on a threshing floor, this tiring task is now mostly done by machine. Threshing is one of the tasks a combine harvester performs, along with harvesting the plant and cleaning the grains. In some places, it is common to see plants spread along the surface of country roads so the grain may be threshed by the wheels of passing vehicles. Although threshing removes the straw and the chaff, it does not remove the bran

Answer 7

Threshing is the process of removing the grain grom the chaff and stems of cereal crops. The cut seed heads are beaten and bashed about to loosen them and separate them from the husks. The grains are then separated by griddling them through a mesh and blowing away the fine chaff. It is done by machine now but used to be done by hand with flails.

Answer 8

Threshing is the action of separating the grains from the straw and chaff.  In olden times this was done on a "threshing" floor where the grain was separated by walking on the heads and freeing the grains.  Then the straw and chaff were removed by winnowing or using air movement to carry off the straw and chaff.  Old threshers had a high speed fan that blew through the threshed grain to remove the chaff.

Answer 9

when you knock the seeds off the wheat

Answer 10

this is the blowing off stalks shells off havested grain eg wheat beans In Africa we pour the grain against the wind and the lighter stalks and shells get blown away by the wind leaving cleaner grains.

Answer 11

threshing or thrashing, separation of grain from the stalk on which it grows and from the chaff or pod that covers it. The first known method was by striking the reaped ears of grain with a flail. In another early method horses or oxen trod out the grain from stalks spread on a threshing floor. In both cases the straw was raked away and then the mixture of grain and chaff was winnowed, i.e., tossed into or poured through a current of air so that the light chaff was blown away from the heavier grain. In 1784 a Scotsman, Andrew Meikle, devised a threshing machine. Sheaves of grain were fed into a revolving cylinder armed with wooden beaters. Another toothed drum raked away the loose straw and pushed the remaining chaff and grain through a sieve onto a series of rollers that further separated the chaff from the grain in preparation for winnowing. The principle of Meikle's machine has been retained in all threshing machines up to and including the modern self-propelled combines.

Answer 12

All the answers are good - did you know that the Threshold of a door came to be called that because that was where the Threshing was done.