An agricultural inventions timeline of the most significant agricultural inventions during the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. Ten years ago this month, the first issue of Farm ...

American Steam Traction and to A. D. Baker''Part I In northwestern Ohio is a town of about two thousand people, called Swanton. It is located in Fulton County and is situated on the New York Central ...

Just as ancient man came up with the idea for the wheel, it was probably only a matter of time until someone devised the idea of squeezing loose hay into a package that could by tied, handled and ...

Mr. Gust Hove, Box 14, Erskine, Minn., sends us these pictures of his engines.. A Case 75 hp No. 26024 and a Rumely Oil Pull built in 1912 and numbered 312. We are not told who the fine folks are ...

At the beginning of World War II, farm tractor and implement manufacturers suspended production as they converted their factories to war-time production. With 4 million American farmers (out of a ...

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 ...

Strong fibers formed strong nations in the pre-industrial age, and hemp was strategically important during the Revolutionary War. Yet, hemp is no longer purposefully grown in the U.S. in any ...

The Great Depression that caused so much trouble in the world during the 1930s ended only with the boom caused by World War II. For American farmers however, the downturn began shortly after World War ...

Front-end loaders are so commonplace that they blend into the mechanical landscape at construction sites. Most farms, many estates and even some suburban homes are equipped with at least one. This ...

Let us start this story with another story, a true story that my dad liked to tell. Spring was coming one year back in the 1920s and oats in the overhead bin needed cleaning so they could be used for ...

In America today, it’s hard to visualize what the world was like before the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. The REA brought electricity to all the tiny backwoods settlements. What would your house ...

The last thing Dwight Anderson expected to be doing in retirement was plowing with a tractor. However, when he inherited his father’s 1946 Farmall H in 1981, one thing led to another. Today, Dwight ...