Hello, Reader. I once asked my dad why his father migrated from the Illinois farm country to Montana cattle country in the early 1900s. “Henry Ford destroyed all the farm jobs,” he told me. “My dad ...

The Fordson tractor was first developed by Henry Ford's motor company in the USA in 1917 and thousands were imported to Britain during and immediately following the First World War. It was of ...

In 1892, John Froelich built the first gasoline-powered tractor in Iowa, capable of both forward and reverse propulsion, which ushered agriculture into a new era. A few decades later, Henry Ford’s ...

The Fordson and Ferguson tractors which revolutionised Welsh farming after 1945 are as important as the historic horse-drawn implements and archaic ox ploughs in the story of Welsh agriculture.

Launched in 1929 by the Ministry of Agriculture at the outbreak of WWII the Fordson Standard N tractors aim was to reduce reliance on imported food, which was vulnerable to German U-boat attacks ...