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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edward Rumely, the man who brought the company into the modern age, encouraged development of the popular OilPull tractor line. A mighty Rumely 30-60 Oilpull Tractor gains fame for the company as it ...

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 ...