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 ...

John Froelich’s tractor had a gasoline engine mounted on a steel frame and was considerably more manueverable and cheaper to run than the steam tractors of the era. Just curious: This occasional ...

Farming, meet the future. This is the Monarch electric tractor and the company thinks it will help farmers solve a handful of problems all in one neat little package. The company revealed the tractor ...

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