Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) NORTH HENDERSON, Ill. – Almost 80 years ago Bill Meeker’s father and grandfather bought an Oliver 70 tractor.

WATERLOO -- Oliver tractors from Osage to Ontario, Canada, have rumbled into Waterloo for the weekend. More than 50 tractors from the extinct Charles City-based Oliver Corp. came to town for the three ...

Heirloom items hold generations of memories, and that's no different for club vice president of the River Hills Antique Tractor Club. As member Jerry Davis describes it, "Every tractor has a story." ...

BELVIDERE — The Boone County fair is full of tradition from the annual fair food vendors, family farms showing their best livestock, and those that travel hundreds of miles for the Draft horse shows.

Antique tractor pulls aren't just about winning. They're also about fun, memories and family traditions. "My dad bought that tractor when it was two years old," said Joe Eyster of his 1954 Oliver 77 ...

BROWNVILLE | Perhaps it all started because Henry Harless never got a chance to till the soil like his grandfather. “I always liked tractors,” Harless said as he relaxed in the orderly shop area ...

Career advisers are fond of saying that people should turn their passions into their businesses, and Sherry Schaefer, 53, of Greenville, has done just that. The publisher of “Oliver Heritage” and ...

I feel blessed to have grown up on a farm, and during the timeframe that it occurred. When I started going to school (in Gagetown during the mid-1950s), most of the kids in my classroom were from ...

Bidders arrived Saturday morning to watch as a parade of antique tractors wove through the Mississippi Valley Fair Center on the fairgrounds in Davenport. They attended the Gone Farmin' auction event ...

Everyone has their passions. I, for example, enjoy collecting football shirts. Other people like stamps. Some people like vintage tractors. Oliver Godfrey, from Cheffins, is very good at auctioning ...