About 450 people walked through the museum gates on Oct. 25 to view the machines and listen to Pat Donovan’s descriptions of ...

A central Illinois man thought he was just donating two old tractors to benefit a Taylorville school. He was partially right. One donated tractor was the vintage farm machinery find of a lifetime — a ...

The first tractor Dewaine Clayton ever sat on was the 1957 Ford 860 that his dad put him on when he was 9 years old. He has been hooked ever since. Clayton restored that same tractor in 2004, about ...

Lilly Mills can't reach the pedals of her family's 30-year-old tractor, but the three-year-old knows how the John Deere works. The massive machine was one of a dozen on display Sunday morning, doing ...

Considered by some agriculture aficionados the vintage farm machinery find of a lifetime, a 1928 John Deere GP tractor, serial number 200211, the very first cultivating tractor to ever roll off the ...

Sometimes Duaine Filsinger lucks into antique John Deere tractors to restore through a friend. That has been the case several times. One of these acquisitions is a John Deere 620 gas orchard tractor ...

CHARLESTON — John Deere tractors will be front and center this weekend at the East Central Illinois Antique Farm Equipment Club Show. John Deere and many other types of equipment will be on display ...

Dave McEachren's love of John Deere tractors began when he was a youngster growing up on a farm in southwestern Ontario. "I was a backyard sandbox farmer before I was a full-time farmer," said ...

SOMEBODY TO TRY TO STEAL IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. THE BACK WHEELS WERE HERE. THE FRONT WHEELS WERE WERE NARROW, AND THEY WERE RIGHT HERE EARLY MONDAY MORNING, A 1937 JOHN DEERE TRACTOR WAS ...

Walton County man collected, restored 150+ vintage John Deere and Caterpillar tractors Walton County resident and retired physician James Sheppard has collected and restored more than 150 Vintage John ...