Farm Days at historic western Iowa site to showcase threshing, antique equipment

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa agricultural history will be showcased this Saturday and Sunday on an 80 acre farm in western Iowa that’s near the town of Shelby.

The annual Carstens Farm Days are held on a farmstead that dates back to the early 1870s. The Carstens family donated the property to the Pottawattamie County Historical Society in 1977 and the site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Over 250 pieces of farm equipment will be on display and there will be threshing and a sawmill demonstrations.

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