This 1959 Ford 971 featured the world’s first independent powershift transmission, changing agriculture forever.

Today’s farm tractors generally run on diesel. It wasn’t always that way. As NACFE ramps up for Run on Less Messy – Middle in 2025 to demonstrate the heavy-duty long haul efficiencies of a range of ...

2018 is the Year of the Tractor at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and this 1918 Waterloo Boy, one of the first tractors with a combustion engine, just went on exhibit.

Historic Waterloo Boy Growing up Amish, Matt Schwartz had limited time around farm tractors. But there was that latened ...

The McLeod County History museum is home to thousands of historical artifacts, documents and photos. Many of these artifacts date back to the 19th century and are important remnants of the settlers ...

Russ Jansma pulled a wagon full of riders around the Lake County Fairgrounds Friday mornng with his grandfather’s antique tractor. The annual ritual has become a tradition for Jansma, of Hebron, who ...

During World War II, the lack of men for farm work accelerated the use of mechanized farm implements Scottsdale being land rich and cash poor worked to the school district’s advantage in acquiring ...

The machinery sheds at Keith Hilliard’s farm are filled with several newer Case IH tractors, but there’s also plenty of space ...

Every so often, something truly remarkable surfaces in the collections of the HCEA Archives. This is such an instance. In 2019, the Archives was anonymously given an assortment of records originating ...

Alan Taggart still hears the ghosts of Detroit engines that beat the air to death between a roar and a scream on his farmland, powering eight tractors at the vanguard of the four-wheel drive era.