Agricultural groups started sending around top-line numbers for the $28 billion that will go into conservation programs as part of the $3.5...
Are you treating your body as well as you do your farm equipment? The most important tool on the farm may be getting the least attention.
DTN Staff Reporter Russ Quinn substitutes Vintage Iron for a new UTV, perhaps to his older son's dismay.
Most farmers and ranchers are not ones to waste things, which might be why some farmers have a steady supply of "items" and sometimes they might not know what exactly they have. One Iowa farmers asks for help identifying a vintage implement seat he found in a building on his farm.
Ford Tractor Company, as part of an ad campaign, tried to pump up sales of its new Select-O-Speed transmissions in 1959; Ford Tractor dealers were supposed to paint at least one of their tractors gold. Russ Quinn asks if anyone owns, or has stories about, these rare golden tractors.
DTN Reporter Russ Quinn shares one reader's snow story.
DTN Reporter Russ Quinn shares one reader's snow story.
DTN Reporter Russ Quinn continues to ponder how people pushed snow in the past, as well as shares one reader's own snow story.
DTN Reporter Russ Quinn is pushing snow this winter with equipment his family has used for generations.
DTN Staff Reporter Russ Quinn compiled a list of what he considers to be the all-time top 10 best series of tractors.
DTN Staff Reporter Russ Quinn compiled a list of what he considers to be the all-time top 10 best series of tractors.
Today, Vintage Iron looks at some stories sent in by readers.
I may write a column titled "Russ' Vintage Iron" but I certainly do not have all the answers. Heck, I don't even know all the questions.
I may write a column titled "Russ' Vintage Iron" but I certainly do not have all the answers. Heck, I don't even know all the questions.
Even though COVID-19 has curtailed many activities around the country, there are still some vintage iron events happening.
A vintage The Progressive Farmer magazine cover from June 1967 shows how double cropping was accomplished 53 years ago.
Soldiers returning to the farm from war often had to buy their first new trucks and machinery.
Russ mulls over current tough times as compared to historical tough times.
A Vintage Iron reader from Kentucky shares a story about his 1949 Model D Leader tractor.
In this month's Vintage Iron, Robert Robinson of Parkhill, Ontario, Canada, shares the story of his 1956 International 300 tractor.
James Piotter of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, shares how his family used an International 1456 tractor on their farm.
Prototype tractors that were never mass produced can bring big money in auctions.