NORTH HENDERSON, Ill. – Almost 80 years ago Bill Meeker’s father and grandfather bought an Oliver 70 tractor. It was the first Oliver in the family. “It’s a 1942 model. I’m a 1943 model. It’s been ...
BELVIDERE — The Boone County fair is full of tradition from the annual fair food vendors, family farms showing their best livestock, and those that travel hundreds of miles for the Draft horse shows.
BENNINGTON, MI — An antique Oliver tractor has found a sweet second career long after its farming days ended. Floyd Koerner III and his father, Floyd Koerner Jr., members of the Heart of Michigan ...
Career advisers are fond of saying that people should turn their passions into their businesses, and Sherry Schaefer, 53, of Greenville, has done just that. The publisher of “Oliver Heritage” and ...
There is nothing quite like spending a Saturday with antique tractor collectors which was reaffirmed at a recent meeting on a south-central Kansas farm. Jim and Cedric Blough recently hosted a meeting ...
I feel blessed to have grown up on a farm, and during the timeframe that it occurred. When I started going to school (in Gagetown during the mid-1950s), most of the kids in my classroom were from ...
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KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI — People from across West Michigan traveled to Kalamazoo County Saturday for an antique tractor show through the village of Vicksburg. The Kalamazoo Valley Antique Engine & ...
Heirloom items hold generations of memories, and that's no different for club vice president of the River Hills Antique Tractor Club. As member Jerry Davis describes it, "Every tractor has a story." ...
Skittish about the stock market and credit crisis? There's another place to park your money: collectible tractors. The sector is growing like never before — it has even attracted European investors.
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