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 ...

The Will County Threshermen's Association annual show will be held July 16–19 at Spiess Farm.

From a 1995 auction purchase to decades of displays at Husker Harvest Days, one Nebraska rancher is preserving farm equipment ...

BOISE — The novelty or fun factor associated with the 50 antique tractors that are built into and around the JUMP facility in downtown Boise is not wearing off. The JUMP facility opened in December ...

Walk into the Winamac Town Park at the Pulaski County Fairgrounds during the third week of July, and the first thing that ...

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 ...

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 ...

NOKOMIS, ILLINOIS / ACCESS Newswire / April 9, 2025 / Aumann Auctions is proud to offer collectors and antique tractor enthusiasts a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own one of the rarest and most ...

BUCYRUS - Years ago, Mike McCracken's father started collecting hit-n-miss engines. "He had a steam engine, and the boiler went bad in it ... and a guy had a boiler," the Galion man recalled of his ...

There is a lot more than nuts and bolts tied up in Preston Wells’s extensive collection of antique farm machinery. The history of the agriculture industry, childhood memories and family tradition bond ...

DANVILLE — The Farwell siblings held their shiny trophies proudly on Saturday after winning first and second place in their age group for pedal tractor pulls during the second day of the Montour ...

— The collecting of antique machinery is a hobby for many locals in this area, but behind the glimmering paint of a freshly restored John Deere tractor is a sense of nostalgia that brings residents of ...