Modern mini tractors are designed for most basic tasks in agriculture and utilities. Unless you plan on plowing a giant field with a big plow all day, you don’t need a heavy machine with high power.

The Big Rock Plowing Match will be held Sept. 18-20 at Plowman’s Field in Big Rock. A variety of activities are scheduled throughout the weekend, including the event’s namesake competition.

Other tractor manufacturers avoided direct competition with the Fordson, positioning themselves as different in some way, better at plowing, more durable, or able to do more jobs on the farm.

The Oliver Farm Equipment Company was formed in 1929 by merging four farm equipment companies including the Oliver Chilled Plow Works and the Hart-Parr Company, a tractor manufacturer. When three ...

An Andover man is hoping to break a world record by pulling a 50-bottom plow using a rebuilt 150-horsepower Case steam-powered tractor at the James Valley Threshing Show in Andover this weekend ...

Bluebonnet members collectively own more than 300 tractors and a barnyard of plows, mowers and other implements. Steed recruited many of the members during tractor-hunting forays in the country.

Numerous John Deere 4020 tractors will be on display during the Half Century of Progress to mark the 60th anniversary of the tractor that was in production for more than a decade.