DAVENPORT - The vintage tractors lined up outside, waiting for their name to be called to the stage inside the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds for the seventh annual Spring Classic auction Saturday.

In late January I headed to Sidney, Iowa, for the Lawrence and Mary Lou Crom farm retirement auction. Being at an in-person sale with live bidding and rubbing elbows with other actual humans was like ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — When Michael Sullivan decided to raise money for Mayo Clinic by auctioning off a vintage John Deere tractor, he expected to raise between $25,000 and $30,000. Instead, he garnered ...

ENSLEY – Arlene Culver beamed as she surveyed the farmyard lined with 72 antique tractors, old engines and other rusted farm equipment collected by her late father, Sherwood “Red” Casterline. “My ...

ST. EDWARD, Neb. and HAMILTON, Ill., July 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- BigIron, the industry's largest agricultural and real estate auction marketplace, and Sullivan Auctioneers, one of the largest real ...

As May arrives, bringing warmer weather throughout much of the country, two segments in the used equipment auction world are also heating up: lower horsepower utility tractors and unique antique ...

KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT FIVE. THE CEO OF AN IOWA FARM EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER IS PARTING WAYS WITH MORE THAN 100 TRACTORS IN HIS MASSIVE COLLECTION. JUST LOOK AT THIS. I MEAN, IT JUST GOES ON FOR MILES, IT ...

DICKINSON, N.D. - A line of rusted tractors, neatly tagged and laid out according to make and model, might seem like the start of a junkyard, not the beginning of an auction-yet for many on these very ...

The United States’ postwar enthrallment with jet engines infected everyone—even International Harvester, which built an experimental turbine tractor named the HT-340. But while the original example ...

WALWORTH, Wis. – A power-packed lineup of more than 400 vintage tractors, 2,000 signs and farm relics, and more than 50 vintage trucks will cross the auction block at Mecum Auctions’ 2020 Gone Farmin’ ...

As each antique tractor came up for bid Saturday, Howard Axelson jumped into the seat, started the engine and told the crowd about how long each tractor had been in his family and how it had been used ...