Edition 2025
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Black Wheat Threshing Festival
Mauriac — Cantal (15)
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28 Sep 2025
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2025
2025
Edition 2025 — Finished
Edition 2025 — Black Wheat Threshing
2025 edition of the Black Wheat Threshing Festival at the Mauriac Rural Traditions Museum-Conservatory. Museum open house from 10 AM, black wheat threshing with flail and thresher at 2 PM, exhibition of old tractors and agricultural machinery, sawing demonstrations, refreshment stand and bourriols.
Black Wheat Threshing Festival - 2025 Edition
The 2025 edition of the Black Wheat Threshing Festival was held on Sunday, September 28, 2025 at the "Clément Besombes" Museum-Conservatory of Rural Traditions in Mauriac. Visitors could discover the museum from 10 AM and attend in the afternoon demonstrations of buckwheat threshing using traditional methods, with flails and a mechanical thresher.
The exhibition of old tractors and agricultural machinery allowed visitors to admire machines restored with passion. The refreshment stand offered bourriols and pompes grasses to the delight of food lovers.
Programme
Sunday, September 28, 2025
- 10:00 AM: Museum opens - free visit
- 2:00 PM: Black wheat threshing with flail and thresher
- 2:00 PM: Sawing demonstrations
- All day: exhibition of old tractors and agricultural machinery
- Refreshments, bourriols, and pompes grasses
Highlights
- Demonstration of buckwheat threshing with flail and thresher
- Exhibition of old tractors and period agricultural machinery
- Old-fashioned wood sawing demonstrations
- Tasting of bourriols and pompes grasses
- Free visit of the rural traditions museum
- Free admission
Prices
Free admission