The engine John T. Offutt built. A remarkable little engine that has the folks in northern Missouri from the big ranch farmer down to the barefoot street urchin tagging after it has been built by John ...
In 1949, Jabez Love was selling his row crop tractor with a 3-point hydraulic implement lift. The tractor embodied 17 years of design innovations. Today, Jabez is remembered by a few collectors who ...
The VerHages use this 1977 Deutz D 8006 on the feed cart in their Holstein operation at VerHage Holsteins. Learn how one Michigan family maintains their antique tractor collection in active use as a ...
A 1963 CJ5 equipped with a 1946 Newgren hydraulic lift. Eighty years ago, a new kind of vehicle drove into the world. Months before the U.S. entered into World War II, military leaders had a plan to ...
A hedge fencerow in summer. Hedge trees are armed with wicked thorns that deter contact. One winter in the early 1940s, my father decided that an 80-rod hedge row needed “harvesting” for fence posts ...
Walls like these, common throughout Wales, are a visual reminder of early agricultural practices there. Most are at least 200 years old but remain highly functional. Other relics endure as cherished ...
A rare Massey-Harris Model 50, a product resulting from the dealer friction caused by the Massey-Harris/Ferguson merger. M-H dealers wanted a tractor like the Ferguson 35, so M-H sheet metal was added ...
It’s not a normal occurrence, in the 21st century, to drive past a cornfield and see a farmer combining with a small, orange New Idea Uni-Harvester. But ever since I can remember, my father has been a ...
The arduous task of summer harvest was first undertaken using a primitive cradle, or scythe connected to four to six long wooden ribs that could hold several hand swathings. These were then dropped in ...
Recognized all over the world, the Ferguson TE-20 tractor is a lasting memorial to the inventive spirit of Harry Ferguson. Harry Ferguson and Henry Ford at the 1939 press introduction of the new ...
A late Sherman M4 tank with a high-velocity 76mm main gun guards the Abrams Gate to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Robert H. Crawford’s Sherman in 1948 pulling a Fowler deep-digger ...
When we talk about farming with mules decades ago, we tend to picture small operations. An Iowa ranch established in 1896 is a noteworthy exception. William P. Adams was an unlikely farmer. Born in ...