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

Hear the story of how Heinrich Johann Herickhoff became Henry John, proud to be an American, with his John Deere collection ...

Learn about the history of John Deere newsprint advertisements, and see how these ads reflect the company's own manufacturing ...

Learn about the history of the hay press, with a special focus on those presses that went to work before engines were a common sight on farms.

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 ...

The balling and sacking room at the Stillwater prison in 1909. “Your new binder was made where?!?” If, during the first half of the 20th century, a farmer in Ohio, Pennsylvania or New York showed his ...

Dennis Rinehart’s 1939 Ford 9N (Serial No. 8235). The Ford 9N, the Ferguson 3-point system and the brilliant mind of a production executive left a lasting mark on the Willys-Overland farm jeep. My ...

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 ...

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 ...