ELLETTSVILLE — Some of you reading this column know Chris Kleindorfer, a man who for 35 years repaired vehicles of all kinds at his no-frills shop in a refurbished hog barn west of Bloomington near ...

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 ...

Nokomis is a small town in South Central Illinois with a population just over 2,000. Unassuming though it may seem, Nokomis happens to be home to Aumann Auctions, the world’s leader in the auctioning ...

Dotting America's landscape are skeletons of old trucks and tractors—rusting hulks of metal garnished with weeds poking through the floorboards and around the axles of equipment that once helped build ...

While modern agriculture is filled with very modern technology, farmers have been butting heads with some of the biggest farm equipment builders over tech issues, specifically the fight for their own ...

When I visit antique power shows or visit with folks whose passion is to collect antique tractors, I soon realize there is a story behind each of these collectible machines. Most collectors will ...

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HITTERDAL, Minn. — Inside one of several sheds at the Larry and Regina Jacobson farm near Hitterdal in western Minnesota's Clay County are dozens of gas and diesel relics parked so close together you ...

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, ...