Model Antique Farm Equipment

David Potter has always been able to craft a blueprint in his mind and turn it into the exact design he’s envisioned. His years spent growing up on a North Dakota farm sparked an interest in scratch-building models of tractors and other farming equipment. “I’d go out in my dad’s garage when I was 10 years old,” he recalls. “I’d start modifying a toy tractor to ...

Staff | Apr 5, 2021

Farming with New Ida Uni-System Collection

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 proud owner of New Idea Uni-Systems. Growing up on a dairy farm that my father started on his own, it made sense that we would only be able to afford these smaller combines that ...

Staff | Apr 5, 2021

The Story Behind the Heirlooms

Fred Hendricks | Mar 3, 2020

It All Started with a Minneapolis-Moline Tractor

Bill Vossler | Aug 14, 2019

Old Iron Collector Straddles Two Worlds

Loretta Sorensen. | Jun 4, 2019

An Allis-Chalmers Tractor Collection with a Nostalgic Touch

Bill Vossler | Feb 6, 2019

Oliver and the USSR

There are tons of interesting stories from the old days of farm equipment manufacturing. One, from the 1930s, involves the Oliver Farm Equipment Company and the Russian Communist government and is told by Elmer Baker, Jr. in his Reflections column in the Oct. 21, 1963 issue of Implement & Tractor magazine. Baker (1889 to 1964) had been associated with farm equipment all his ...

Staff | May 3, 2021

An Idea Whose Time Never Came

Sam Moore | Aug 10, 2020

Going Head to Head: Deere and International Harvester

Robert N. Pripps | Mar 31, 2020

The Lindeman Influence on the Crawler Market

Robert N. Pripps | Mar 3, 2020

Early History of the Hart-Parr Co.

Sam Moore. | May 9, 2019