Barn finds make for great stories. Rescues have a slightly different flavor. Such is the rescue story of the only RD6 side-seat with Trailer Patrol known to exist. The town of Fortescue, Missouri, had ...

Note the sign above a doorway of the American Tractor Museum; the word ‘Tractor’ is spelled out using tractor parts. The American Tractor Museum at Perryville, Missouri, population 8,600, is a ...

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 ...

Far right: large dibbers used to plant corn, beans and any of the larger vegetable seeds. To the left of the dibbers are the potato forks and sifters. The balls on the ends of the tines eliminate ...

The "power" part of a mule-powered cotton gin. The gin itself is upstairs and is driven by a flat belt from the large vertical pulley behind the white mule. The “Song of Steam” was written in 1849 by ...

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 ...

A 1963 CJ5 equipped with a 1946 Newgren hydraulic lift. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...