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

Learn about the history of the round baler and the many men and companies that claimed to be the first to create a functional ...

Learn about the history, development, and legacy of the John Deere Model A tractor, and which market role this tractor was ...

During World War II, gasoline was rationed. Using ration books like this one, motorists were limited to a weekly allowance of gasoline, although farmers and truckers could get all the fuel they needed ...

The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...

Some of the crew that helped salvage and restore the steam engine (from left): Gene Zopfi, George Benson, Ted McNamara, Kurt Eiden, Art Job and Bob Tollefson. The 1916 Avery 16 hp steam traction ...

David Ballinger tweaks a 6-volt Wincharger Model 611, part of his Wincharger display at the 2003 Midwest Old Threshers Reunion, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. "My dad had always wanted to find a Wincharger, so ...

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 ...

This month’s column is a change of pace from tractors and farm equipment. Instead, we’ll take a look at the histoy of anvils. Most early farm shops had an anvil, or at least a chunk of railroad rail ...

One of the more famous names among rusty iron enthusiasts is that of the Hart-Parr Co., which has more than one claim to fame. Hart-Parr built the first practical internal combustion tractor engine, ...

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 ...

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 ...