The average person likely doesn’t think about tractors much, and most have never paused to watch one work. That’s a shame, as tractors are among the most fascinating engine-powered machines, without ...

Bob Nesselroad, a volunteer at Living History Farms in Des Moines, Iowa, stands on an antique steam tractor during a threshing demonstration in August 2022. (Rox Laird/Courthouse News) (CN) — ...

The town of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, sits in Iowa’s southeast corner, in the middle of gently rolling fields of corn and soybeans. Over the recent Labor Day weekend, its normal population of about 9,000 ...

Don Dufner has not only collected hundreds of John Deere tractors over the last few decades, he has tractors no one else has. Don Dufner of Buxton, North Dakota, has been collecting John Deere ...

When Dallastown’s Wilfred F. Markey Jr. died at age 89 in 2016, his obituary told about the well-known trucking company that he built starting in the 1950s. But a good chunk of the obituary told of ...