Harry Merritt, the general manager of the Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division, decided there was a large market for a row-crop tractor that could replace the horses being used on small farms. The popular ...

As a seven-year-old boy growing up on a farm near Renfrew, Ont., George Nesbitt would read his father's farming magazines admiring the pictures of the tractors advertised inside. One day, unbeknownst ...

As many of you have correctly pointed out, New Holland’s fuel cell tractor (shown at last week’s Paris show) isn’t the first one. Allis Chalmers began experimenting with a fuel cell tractor in 1959.

During the 1950s, farmers were increasing the size of their operations and asking for tractors with more power. Tractor engineers answered their requests by designing engines with a larger ...