By 1900, more than 30 firms were manufacturing 5,000 steam-powered tractors every year. The appearance of steam power required large capital, large capital required more acres and higher yields to ...

An Andover man is hoping to break a world record by pulling a 50-bottom plow using a rebuilt 150-horsepower Case steam-powered tractor at the James Valley Threshing Show in Andover this weekend.

According to Farm Collector, it is believed that one of the earliest steam-powered tractors built in America was constructed by Henry G. Stone in 1860. His steam-powered traction engine ...

Then, the steam whistle might call the men back to the field where they were at it often until after dark. Like all historic periods, steam powered threshing eventually disappeared. Nick Foster of ...

Steam engines were the main power for threshing machines until the 1930s, when gasoline-powered tractors took over the landscape. The last steam thresher to operate in Rollag was put to rest in 1937.

Born of the steam engine boom of the Industrial Revolution, the first steam-powered tractors were produced in the early 1900s, essentially eliminating a farmer's reliance on horses and oxen to ...

The Steam-Up has been showcasing all kinds of steam-powered machinery for more than 50 years. ... the involvement and the evolution of all the tractors, and how that helped make life easier today.

Onlookers watch as a turn-of-the-century steam-powered thresher works the land during the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers' Reunion in Rollag, Minnesota, on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024.