A reproduction of an Arcade McCormick-Deering tractor. The differences are hard to tell, although a close look will show that the "McCormick" name is misspelled as "McCormic." They look real. Not only ...

Take a look at the humble beginnings of the Ferguson tractor, a machine featuring a hydraulic system that revolutionized ...

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

This New Holland Model 320 is representative of later, more streamlined hay balers that used an in-line plunger. The New Holland Model 66, introduced in 1953, was the industry's first PTO-powered ...

Hear a first hand account of life working in the Fox River Tractor Company's Appleton, Wisconsin, factory from a long time ...

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 ...

For every antique farm equipment enthusiast! Do you have a special place in your heart for the good old days of life on the American farm? Do your ears perk up at the sound of an old Johnny Popper ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shely fiber breaker. More than 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber was needed to rig the 44-gun USS Constitution, America’s oldest Navy ship affectionately called “Old Ironsides.” Nearly 55 tons of fiber was ...

A planter check head showing how (assuming the planter is moving from right to left), as the wire slides through the fork (b), the button in the wire (a) catches the fork and pulls it to the rear, ...

Gable hay door on end hoist barn; and a typical hay fork carrier. In the old days, barns were built long, wide and relatively low. Hay mows were kept low since the hay had to be pitched into them by a ...