Municipal orders created orange, yellow and blue John Deere tractors that now command premium prices from vintage equipment ...

"Custom rates include charges for the equipment, tractor or power unit used, fuel, repairs and the operator." These rates are published as a guide in establishing rates for custom work, comparing ...

Many farm operators provide some type of custom work or use of farm machinery to other farmers during the growing season, and payment is usually made following the completion of the harvest season.

Big Equipment Co. has led the agriculture industry in rebuilding and custom-building older tractors for farmers, many of them Big Buds. Without computerized systems, these tractors worked the fields, ...

Many of us are willing to do some additional custom work as part of our operation in order to spread equipment cost over more acres. It doesn’t seem that difficult to custom plant or harvest some ...

Discover how John Deere overtook International Harvester to dominate the U.S. tractor market, and why Kubota is rising fast ...

What it costs to have someone bring equipment to your farm and put it to work is the focus of a new University of Idaho survey. Through the 2025 Custom Rate Survey, UI aims to provide its first ...

A turn of the ignition says all the machine needs to say. Sixteen pistons vibrate a body that weighs over 100,000 pounds. Twin plumes of black diesel smoke flee silver exhaust pipes above the cab.

HENDRICKS, Minn. — South African workers have helped grow the Olsen Custom Farming into a custom combining powerhouse. Chad Olsen, 51, runs the company with his wife, Pam, from a tree-lined farmstead ...