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

Learn about the history of the round baler and the many men and companies that claimed to be the first to create a functional ...

Learn about the history, development, and legacy of the John Deere Model A tractor, and which market role this tractor was ...

The sign announces the annual Fall-Der-All, the last full weekend in September. I was recently at a farm auction. Farmers were bidding on a Farmall 560 Diesel. A little girl asked, “Daddy, who ...

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 ...

This Pastime washer, showing the firstvariant construction, is in remarkablygood original condition. Learn about Pastime Maytag washer history facts, the story behind Maytag’s first clothes washer, ...

3An article of mine in the October 2022 issue of Farm Collector focused on how loaded farm trucks were a “block in the road” due to their slow travel. An explanation is necessary to define the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A hedge fencerow in summer. Hedge trees are armed with wicked thorns that deter contact. One winter in the early 1940s, my father decided that an 80-rod hedge row needed “harvesting” for fence posts ...

This circa 1870s advertising chromolithograph for the Champion mowing machine captures the romance, if not the reality, of farming with horses. Note the details in the background: a steam locomotive ...

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 ...