People put a lot of strange things in their yards: plastic pink flamingoes, ceramic garden gnomes, even giant plaster dinosaurs. But in the Intermountain West, we tend to go for something a bit more ...

Drive north out of the small central Pennsylvania town of Muncy, alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River, up into the crinkled hills, and you’ll find it: the farm that grows machines. They sprout ...

What started as a four-page flier advertising “new parts for old tractors” has grown into a 616-page, phone book-sized catalog of more than 5,000 parts. Those parts are designed to keep old tractors ...

TANGENT, Ore. — From Oregon 34, cutting west off Interstate 5 toward Corvallis, it looks like a tractor graveyard. Skeletons of old International, Case and John Deere tractors, combines and other farm ...

MARSHFIELD, Wis.—Tom Detwiler turned his hobby into a career with his Spencer business, Detwiler Tractor Parts. “We make new parts for old tractors,” he said. “These tractors are so old that a lot of ...

ABERDEEN, South Dakota — The Meyers family of Aberdeen has grown to be one of the upper Midwest’s major recyclers of agricultural tractor and combines, and other equipment. Their parts business is ...