everybody, come up with her’! O. beautiful isle of memory! These thoughts carry me hack beyond what were working days for me, to child-hood days of boyish play–days when I would beg the engineer to ...

Learn how one Michigan family maintains their antique tractor collection in active use as a way of preserving their legacy and traditions. Some antique tractors are trailer queens. Others, in their ...

Learn about Pastime Maytag washer history facts, the story behind Maytag’s first clothes washer, and the company’s eventual industry dominance showcasing American ingenuity and innovation. Over the ...

The history of the world would look far different if it weren’t for the blacksmith industry, which historians say began in the Iron Age, about 1200 B.C. In that era, iron began replacing bronze in ...

Bob later acquired two more Custom tractors. He completely restored a second 1950 Wards Model HR, and then stumbled onto a 1951 Custom Model EW tractor in Vermont. “When I first saw it, I was ...

When retired high school teacher Joe Wurth learned of a vintage cider press tucked away in a barn in his hometown of Marcus, Iowa, he couldn’t have imagined where the history of the piece would take ...

Ohio’s Crawford County is on the eastern edge of America’s corn belt. While the county is steeped in agriculture history, the county seat of Bucyrus was home to more than two dozen manufacturing ...

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 ...

John Ittel’s first “car” at age 16 was a 1947 Model CJ2A Jeep (equipped with a PTO) that he used on the family farm. He’s had firsthand experience with these machines. Like many farmers in the second ...

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 build hundreds of thousands of light trucks that could go ...

With the possible exception of those who lived through the oil shortages of the early 1970s, we take the availability of petroleum fuels for granted. But it has not always been that way everywhere – ...

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 ...