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 ...

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 ...

“If we are able, in our engineering, to keep abreast of, or ahead of, any competitor, there isn’t any question about this business going on indefinitely.” — John McCaffrey, Harvester World, 1958 In ...

A growing number of antique tractors are sporting newly made, Titan-brand tires during the past few years, and some would assume the tires we: made in Yugoslavia, Mexico or some other country where ...

This weathered Mail Pouch barn was photographedalong an Ohio byway. Mail Pouch Tobacco barns were once common along American highways and country roads. The barn advertising campaign was launched by ...

The Farmall F-22 in 1938 when it was beginning to look more like the subsequent production Farmall H. Courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society, image ID: WHi-27595. In the 1920s, American designers such ...

It seems everyone enjoys a good mystery. For proof, look no further than “What Is It,” one of the most popular monthly features in Farm Collector. Every issue, readers contribute photos of items for ...

Pilots identify fields that need dusting and ready the aircraft for flight at Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J., in June 1942. Commonly known as crop dusters or air sprayers, aerial applicators with ...

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 restored 1908 Waterous fire engine, in all its glory. When Kraig Tracy was a kid growing up in Fairmount, North Dakota, he and his buddies found entertainment in a relic of the past: an old ...

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 this photo was taken in about 1918, this Cletrac was being used as a "plow horse." Note how narrow this Model F (the first Cleveland tractor to carry the Cletrac name) is. In 1918, farmers were ...