Farm Tractors

After the first tractors appeared on the scene in the late 1890s, it took another two decades and plenty of modifications for farmers to embrace this once-crude technology in favor of the steam engine, further advancing the power-farming revolution. Written by an international expert in agricultural machinery, Farm Tractors takes readers back to the nineteenth century to look at the precursors to modern tractors and travels through the years to follow the machine’s evolution as tractors became indispensable equipment on farms across America. From prominent early manufacturers and models – such as Henry Ford’s legendary Model F, International Harvester’s Farmall, the Waterloo Boy, John Deere, and more – to modern-day tractors and an outlook on the future of farm machinery, this book is the ultimate guide to farm tractor history and what’s to come!