The price of used should be taken as relative to the price of a similar product brand-new off the factory line. That’s another way of saying that paying $80,000 for a nearly 30-year-old tractor sounds ...

Let’s talk truths in the used tractor market. 1.) The overall supply of used tractors finally began to rise in the second half of this year. 2.) Despite rising supply, used tractor prices are still ...

At the height of the mid-August heat wave, I was relieved when an old friend canceled his planned trip to attend a sprawling, old farm machinery show amid central Illinois’ endless, sweltering ...

Eli Klessig has restored a handful of tractors, some of which are used by his family on their farm in southeast Minnesota. Eli Klessig, right, stands with Max Benson in front of a Farmall C tractor ...

“Financially, you never recover from tractor pulling. You start putting all this money in, but you get hooked on it, and away you go.” That’s how Dale Conard describes his involvement with antique ...

SELINSGROVE — A single farmer today can separate grain from straw with a combine, but our grandparents and great-grandparents relied on many people to gather the sheaves from the field and feed them ...

Fancy new technology usually is the star at trade shows. But at the Farm Progress Show, the largest outdoor agriculture event in the U.S., used tractors are the big attraction. Farmers at the Boone, ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Illinois farmer Leon Adams’ corn planter sits at the ...

JACKSON, MI – Every year for the last 10 years, 89-year-old Phil Hull has rolled out his antique tractor collection for the Fourth of July. Hull has been displaying the tractors on his farm at 4001 ...

Mike McCracken and Earl Smith both have fond memories of growing up on family farms. McCracken, who is the president of the Crawford Antique Farm Machinery Association, lived on Lemert Road northwest ...

Auction prices for top-quality used farm machinery are reaching record highs as inventory tightens and new equipment sales remain sluggish. Examples include a 2009 Stinger 6500 bale wagon selling for ...