Independent curation

Find farming history books you'll love

Weekly picks surfaced by readers who obsess over tractors, soil, and stories from the field.

Share your top 3 farm reads

Join fellow readers swapping must-read manuals, memoirs, and histories.

Start a list

Fresh off the shelf

Recently Added

Browse all books
Loaded 14 more books
Farmall Century The Evolution of Red Tractors and Crawlers in the Golden Age of International Harvester
Farmall Century The Evolution of Red Tractors and Crawlers in the Golden Age of International Harvester

<p>The 100th Anniversary of the revolutionary Farmall tractor is celebrated in this authoritative model-by-model history that traces the evolution and design of the most significant farm tractors of the 20th century. Award-winning author Lee Klancher chronicles how and why the Farmall tractor came to exist and how it evolved with his signature blend of compelling stories, engaging text, and spectacular images.</p> <ul> <li>A mix of newly created images, gorgeous archival imagery, and engineering drawings and sketches </li> <li>New revelations about the very first farm tractor</li> <li>An intimate look at the creation and evolution of the original Farmall tractor, the Regular</li> <li>Complete coverage of all IH tractors from the very first examples up to 1957</li> <li>A visual guide to all the post-1957 tractors to carry the Farmall badge</li> <li>Complete coverage of the IH crawler line</li> <li>Detailed coverage of how IHC was founded and formed, including a look at the history of the McCormick company</li> <li>Historical imagery and lush studio photography of rare machines hard at work in the fields, pastures, and farm settings</li> </ul> <p>Complete with historical imagery and lush studio photography of rare machines hard at work in the fields, pastures, and farm settings, the Farmall Century is a must-read for every tractor enthusiast.</p>

View Details
John Deere 30 Series Photo Archive
John Deere 30 Series Photo Archive

The 330, 430, 435, 530, 630, 730 & 830 models.

View Details
John Deere Century
John Deere Century

Iconic John Deere tractors ranging from the spartan Waterloo Boy to the Model AOS, and from German and Argentine models to the acclaimed New Generation tractors are featured in this celebration of industrial tractor design. Loaded with photographs, both modern and vintage, and excellently written info, this book will have John Deere fans salivating.

View Details
A Lean Supply Chain at John Deere
A Lean Supply Chain at John Deere

To watch the demo online, click here.</p>--><p>This video DVD is about the successful partnership between John Deere in Horicon, Wisconsin and one of its suppliers - the R&B Machining and Grinding Company located in Racine, Wisconsin. It provides an opportunity to take a look inside John Deere's supply chain - find out what changes were required to "learn their supply chain." <br><p>Run time: 21 minutes</p>Free Video Demo<br><i>A Lean Supply Chain at John Deere DVD</i> <b>To view<br>click on your connection speed!</b> <b>This video requires Windows Media Player and a sound card</b> <b>(28.8K, 56K dial-up)</b> 0.56 minutes, 0.70 mb <b>(ISDN, DSL, Cable, T1)</b> 0.56 minutes, 1.29 mb Click to install

View Details
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer

Foodies and environmentally minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and friends. With visceral stories and humor from Salatin's half-century as a "lunatic" farmer, Salatin contrasts the differences on many levels: practical, spiritual, social, economic, ecological, political, and nutritional.<br><br>In today's conventional food-production paradigm, any farm that is open-sourced, compost-fertilized, pasture-based, portably-infrastructured, solar-driven, multi-speciated, heavily peopled, and soil-building must be operated by a lunatic. Modern, normal, reasonable farmers erect "No Trespassing" signs, deplete soil, worship annuals, apply petroleum-based chemicals, produce only one commodity, erect Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, and discourage young people from farming.<br><br>Anyone looking for ammunition to defend a more localized, solar-driven, diversified food system will find an entire arsenal in these pages. With wit and humor honed during countless hours working on the farm he loves, and then interacting with conventional naysayers, Salatin brings the land to life, farming to sacredness, and food to ministry.<br><br>Divided into four main sections, the first deals with principles to nurture the earth, an idea mainline farming has never really endorsed. The second section describes food and fiber production, including the notion that most farmers don't care about nutrient density or taste because all they want is shipability and volume. The third section, titled "Respect for Life," presents an apologetic for food sacredness and farming as a healing ministry. Only lunatics would want less machinery and pathogenicity. Oh, the ecstasy of not using drugs or paying bankers. How sad. The final section deals with promoting community, including the notion that more farmers would be a good thing.

View Details
John Deere die Traktoren aus Mannheim
John Deere die Traktoren aus Mannheim

Rare Book

View Details
International Harvester Tractors and Equipment in Australia and New Zealand
International Harvester Tractors and Equipment in Australia and New Zealand

This book comprehensively documents the activities of International Harvester Company (IHC) and its influence in Australia and New Zealand, from its inception to its merger with Case as Case IH. IHC began with a merger of harvesting machinery companies to form the International Trust, the world's biggest farm machinery enterprise at the time. Then IHC became involved with tractors to become the world's largest tractor and full-line machinery maker, setting production records that stand to this day. The book offers details on tractors and machinery models for collectors of the International Harvester brand line up. It also provides information and anecdotes about enthusiasts who collect, restore, and maintain vintage machines. International Harvester is copiously illustrated with much previously unpublished material.

View Details
John Deere Farm Tractors A History of the John Deere Tractor
John Deere Farm Tractors A History of the John Deere Tractor

Leffingwell combines interviews with famous Deere designers and newly discovered information on Deere tractors with 200 new, color photos of original and restored tractors from all over the US, to provide a unique history of America's favorite farm tractor. 250 photos and illus.

View Details
Les Tractuers International Harvester En Europe
Les Tractuers International Harvester En Europe

French Text <p>The past 40 years of history of the firm International Harvester are presented in this book The International Harvester Company (abbreviated first IHC and later IH) today known as Navistar International Corporation, was a United States agricultural machinery, construction equipment, vehicle, commercial truck, and household and commercial products manufacturer. In 1902, J.P. Morgan merged the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company, along with three smaller agricultural equipment firms, to form International Harvester. International Harvester sold off its agricultural division in 1985 and renamed itself Navistar International Corporation in 1986. The Case IH brand began when the IH agricultural division merged into J.I. Case. This book delves into the fascinating history of International Harvester.

View Details
John Deere Tractors
John Deere Tractors

<p>Since the early 1920s, John Deere tractors have been cultivating, plowing, and seeding fields across America--and across the globe. American agricultural and mechanical know-how at its finest, these tractors have more than lived up to the company motto "Nothing Runs Like a Deere," in the process becoming the most beloved machines among farmers.<br> <br> A celebration of this icon of American farming, this book features brilliantly detailed photographs of all the most popular and powerful John Deere tractors, along with a wealth of information about these marvels of machinery. The book contains everything a loyal fan of John Deere could hope to find, from curious tidbits to historical facts and horsepower statistics, from Nebraska test results to implement information reaching from the early 1920s up to the present.<br> <i><br> John Deere Tractors</i> includes samples of the company's early advertising and brochures, historical photos of these great tractors at work, and a sampling of the newest technologies being used on these machines.</p>

View Details
International Harvester, Hough and Dresser Construction and Industrial Machines
International Harvester, Hough and Dresser Construction and Industrial Machines

A history of the industrial and construction machines built by the International Harvester Company along with Hough and Dresser.

View Details
John Deere New Generation Tractors
John Deere New Generation Tractors

In August, 1960, thousands of enthusiastic on-lookers gathered to witness the long-awaited introduction of John Deere's new four-cylinder tractors. Presented in archival photographs and ads, as well as contemporary color photography, this volume presents an inside look at how the tractors were designed and conceived, and discusses the managerial strife that made the New Generation (1960-72) tractors possible. Includes coverage of features and options. Standard hardware, as well as rare options, for the 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000 and Worldwide series tractors is covered in detail.

View Details
John Deere's Company A History of Deere and Company and Its Times
John Deere's Company A History of Deere and Company and Its Times

A history of America's most important farm implement manufacturing company traces the development of Deere from the early 1800s, through the Industrial Revolution, to the present

View Details
John Deere Two-Cylinder Collectibles Collector's Reference Guide
John Deere Two-Cylinder Collectibles Collector's Reference Guide

<b>Two classic love stories in a keepsake edition that will heat up your winter!</b><br> <br> <i>The Winter Soldier</i><br> <br> Everyone in Jacobsville, Texas, steered clear of taciturn Cy Parks-everyone but the spirited Lisa Monroe, who electrified the formidable loner with her tantalizing kisses. Their fiery passion escalated when the soldier returned from the line of duty-and claimed Lisa as his bride, to shield her from a revenge-seeking desperado. Clearly Cy was getting mighty possessive of this enchanting woman who needed the type of safeguarding only he could provide. But who would protect the beguiling bride from him...'<br> <br> <i>Cattleman's Pride</i><br> <br> He was strong, seductive and set in his ways. She was shy, unassuming and achingly innocent. Yet when Jordan made it his personal crusade to help Libby hold on to her beloved homestead, everyone in Jacobsville knew it was just a matter of time before wedding bells chimed. But a cattleman's pride was a force to be reckoned with. Could Libby accomplish what no woman had before and tame this Long, Tall Texan's restless heart?

View Details

Browse by interest

Explore Subjects

View all subjects