This New Holland Model 320 is representative of later, more streamlined hay balers that used an in-line plunger. The New Holland Model 66, introduced in 1953, was the industry's first PTO-powered ...

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 ...

Hough’s mid-1930s hydraulic shovel mounted on this Allis-Chalmers Special Model WM crawler makes short work of loading and excavating jobs. The loader featured hydraulic lift with gravity dump; the ...

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 build hundreds of thousands of light trucks that could go ...

By 1906, however, International Harvester took a more aggressive stance, encouraging product line exclusivity from their dealers. IH, as it came to be called, added to its lines farm wagons, gas ...

Strong fibers formed strong nations in the pre-industrial age, and hemp was strategically important during the Revolutionary War. Yet, hemp is no longer purposefully grown in the U.S. in any ...

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 ...

Making a $5 investment in the 1950s. For two years, Joe wondered if he would ever have an opportunity to see the press. When he ran into Fred at a gas station, “I asked him if he remembered telling me ...

There were a lot of things I looked at with wonder while growing up on a farm in Kansas. One of the most intriguing was the cream separator. Every morning and evening, my parents poured the produce ...

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 ...

A wooden cylinder churn shown in a 1928 Milk and Egg Producers catalog put out by Moore Brothers, Albany, N.Y. Today I was making a sandwich for lunch. Upon opening the butter dish I found a neat, ...

This One Minute grain grader and cleaner was made in Newton, Iowa, and came with a removable hand crank so the machine could be powered with a special drive attachment. The end view of the Viking mill ...