Bridget Payne isn’t your typical teenager. As the fifth generation on her Illinois family farm, her love for antique tractors is something she’s proud to share, even among her friend group. “All my ...

If you ever want to know anything about Farmall tractors, Stewart Paquette is the man to go to. The 75 year old is a walking history book of the American tractor manufacturer. Paquette wasn’t always a ...

DECATUR — A line of red tractors, both old and new, weaved through the countryside Monday morning during a trek from Farmer City to Progress City USA in Decatur. In all, about 70 Farmall tractors made ...

When Harry Hoppes was 6 years old, his father put him behind the wheel of a Farmall tractor in a field at the family’s Perry Township farm. “He said to me, ‘Now steer it’,” Hoppes recalls. “I was so ...

It might seem rare for to find a teenager today who has a strong passion for restoring antique tractors. But for one Nebraska teen, finding and restoring tractors has become a growing hobby. When he ...

It is like walking through acres of a haunted cemetery, with the heavy odor of oil and creosote. The tombstones are the upright factory pillars, some a century old. These are the last days, a funeral ...

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HARRISBURG – When Zane Zimmerman was 2 years old, he loved to sit on one of his family’s tractors. His first word, uttered when he was less than a year old, was tractor. Now at the venerable age of 12 ...

Donelle Moormeier cracked a huge smile as her lilac- and cream-colored tractor plodded down 14th Street next to the state Capitol. Moormeier spent nearly two years organizing and planning for Friday, ...

The antique tractors that will be displayed at the Clark County Fair aren’t simply old. They also have stories, said Ed Kranz, an antique tractor repair hobbyist who has taken the steering wheel to ...