The iconic British-built Field Marshall tractors have a history that goes back to the 1840s when William Marshall bought an old engineering works in Gainsborough, England. Marshall named the site the ...

Learn how one Michigan family maintains their antique tractor collection in active use as a way of preserving their legacy and traditions. Some antique tractors are trailer queens. Others, in their ...

Learn about Pastime Maytag washer history facts, the story behind Maytag’s first clothes washer, and the company’s eventual industry dominance showcasing American ingenuity and innovation. Over the ...

The March 2022 issue of Farm Collector arrived and I may have misunderstood the opening sentences in the article titled, “ From Workhorse to Show Horse.” The opening sentence starts, “When the corn ...

When retired high school teacher Joe Wurth learned of a vintage cider press tucked away in a barn in his hometown of Marcus, Iowa, he couldn’t have imagined where the history of the piece would take ...

Ohio’s Crawford County is on the eastern edge of America’s corn belt. While the county is steeped in agriculture history, the county seat of Bucyrus was home to more than two dozen manufacturing ...

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 ...

One winter in the early 1940s, my father decided that an 80-rod hedge row needed “harvesting” for fence posts and firewood. The fence row was located 5 miles east of our farm. Daily trips with a team ...

I recently helped clean up some property and found this old International Harvester 14-disc harrow at the edge of the woods. The owners told me I could have it. When I got it home, I made some repairs ...

It’s not a normal occurrence, in the 21st century, to drive past a cornfield and see a farmer combining with a small, orange New Idea Uni-Harvester. But ever since I can remember, my father has been a ...

One of the toughest annual harvesting chores of the past was “shocking feed,” and I don’t mean an electrical shock either. The dreaded job left everyone working with sore hands, sore backs and a sigh ...

Gerald “Mutti” Ketola owns more than 1,000 chainsaws. He lives near the town of Gwinn, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where logging is still done. In days gone by, many men throughout the state worked ...