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, ...

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 ...

The New Holland Model 73 automatic pick-up baler was the first self-tying machine of its type to take hay baling to the field. A cut-away display of a Hesston by Massey Ferguson small rectangular ...

The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...

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 ...

This Tournadozer, also owned by Bolander & Sons and at work on the same job, fills around a culvert as a CGW freight train whizzes by. Farm Collector is supposed to be about farm stuff, right? However ...

The John Deere Waterloo Boy Model N tractor had a 2-speed transmission, and most had automotive-type steering. It was sold until 1924, when Deere’s Model D was launched. In the early days of power ...

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 ...

State and county fairs have long been a popular venue for tractor manufacturers to show off the latest and greatest. This Oliver 88 – a 1948 model – came along well after 1937, when the Oliver Farm ...

Engine exhaust on all but very early production Regulars was routed down through a small cast iron muffler. The combination manifold routed hot exhaust over the intake passages, which warmed the ...

When it comes to lawn work, today’s homeowner barely breaks a sweat. Lawn work has become a highly mechanized activity, complete with self-propelled power lawn mowers, lawn tractors and an endless ...

The Rock Island Plow Co. dates back to 1855. They manufactured not only plows, but various horse-drawn implements, corn planters, tedder rakes, windrow loaders and even cream separators.