Aug. 9—ALTAMONT — Young people at the Mill Road Thresherman's Show in Altamont Friday afternoon had plenty of activities to choose from — rope making, potato digging, corn shredding, wheat threshing — ...

In the antique tractor world, they are divided only by color categories. John Deere green. Farmall red. Allis-Chalmers orange. Minneapolis Moline prairie gold. Oliver meadow green. Farmers can be very ...

Learn strategies to stretch equipment dollars in 2026, including budget planning, shopping around and right-sizing machinery ...

I’ve been doing this almost 30 years now...tracking auction sale price data. Used to be fairly rare to see farm retirement or estate auctions featuring lot of very late model, 1-3 year old farm ...

DORCHESTER, Neb. (KOLN) - A new “lean-to” has been added at the Saline County Museum in Dorchester, and it offers another location for antique farm equipment to be housed and displayed. We talked with ...

Jimmie Nelson has helped keep the history of his family's farm alive, by restoring old farm equipment that was used by previous generations. James, Jimmie and J.D. Nelson all appreciate the history of ...

People put a lot of strange things in their yards: plastic pink flamingoes, ceramic garden gnomes, even giant plaster dinosaurs. But in the Intermountain West, we tend to go for something a bit more ...

Nokomis is a small town in South Central Illinois with a population just over 2,000. Unassuming though it may seem, Nokomis happens to be home to Aumann Auctions, the world’s leader in the auctioning ...

For more than two decades, Alan Schurman’s famous Iron Ranch wowed people of all ages with its extensive collection of historic machinery and relics of a now-passed industrial age. The Rural Heritage ...

I’ve been compiling auction price data since November 1989 and writing my Machinery Pete column since 1992. Yet in all that time, there’s a timely topic I have yet to cover: how the equipment ...

RATHDRUM, Idaho – For the past decade, Don Jacklin has assembled a museum of sorts along Highway 53 that helps preserve the farming legacy of the region. He’s the right person for the job: Jacklin has ...

"This is just what I used to see when I was a kid," the 76-year-old Porter Township farmer said. "Now it's junk," he said with a laugh meant to convey that one man's junk is another man's historical ...