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 ...

Nokomis is a small town in south central Illinois with a population just over 2,000. Unassuming though it may seem, Nokomis is home to Aumann Auctions, the world’s leader in the auctioning of antique ...

Get ready to wave that flag, wave it wide and high! It’s the official midway point of the summer growing season. The week of the Fourth of July is finally here, and Machinery Pete is feeling the USA ...

If he had his way, Bill Driscoll would restore all of the hundreds of old, rusty tractors stored at the Central Washington Agricultural Museum in Union Gap. "Fix 'em all, but not in my lifetime," the ...

Kris Folland grows corn, wheat and soybeans and raises cattle on 2,000 acres near Halma in the northwest corner of Minnesota, so his operation is far from small. But when he last bought a new tractor, ...

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, ...

Minnesota’s Star Tribune reports that farmers are flocking to 40-year-old tractors at auctions. The appeal is twofold: While classic tractors are cheaper to maintain, simpler to use, and much simpler ...

A Longmont tractor manufacturer that sowed the seeds that helped the city’s job market grow in the mid-1940s and early 1950s is going to be the star of the upcoming Yesteryear Farm Show. Roughly 20 ...

An 85-year-old farmer was given a beautiful surprise when his son purchased a small, vintage tractor that he had used as a teenager and reminded him of his youth. Tom Jordan was 13 years old when his ...