The genius of pioneer inventors can confound us. Countless contraptions that revolutionized farming in the 19th and early ...

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 Field Marshall range of tractors, made by Marshall, Sons & Co. of Gainsborough, England, began in 1945. The tractors featured a stylish design of tinwork painted a smart Brunswick Green. Peter ...

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 ...

This Pastime washer, showing the firstvariant construction, is in remarkablygood original condition. Learn about Pastime Maytag washer history facts, the story behind Maytag’s first clothes washer, ...

Before a crowd of farmers and businessmen who’d invested in a sugar beet refinery, this farmer uses what appears to be a horse-drawn side lifter beet harvester. In The Beet-Sugar Industry in 1920, ...

A junior-size press like this would have been capable of producing up to 150 gallons of apple juice per day. When retired high school teacher Joe Wurth learned of a vintage cider press tucked away in ...

Leaders in preserving agricultural history in Crawford County, Ohio: Mike Hoffman, Vocational Agriculture teacher and FFA advisor at Wynford Local Schools; Mike McCracken, president of the Crawford ...

Some military half-tracks were converted to agricultural use. This one appears to be fueled with a gasifier using coal, as evidenced by the finned cooler/filter behind the driver. Photos here and ...

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 ...

State and county fairs have long been a popular venue for tractor manufacturers to show off the latest and greatest. This Oliver 88 – a 1948 model – came along well after 1937, when the Oliver Farm ...

I’m not a Massey collector, but I do have the one my dad bought new in 1948 when I was 11 years old. It was fixed up so that it ran decent and looked good in 2006. Since then, it has been on about ...