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Modernization in the Periphery: The Introduction of the Tractor in Chile, 1910–1935

Claudio Robles-Ortiz
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 413–443.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.3.413
Published: 01 July 2020
...Claudio Robles-Ortiz Abstract This is the first study of the introduction of the tractor in a Latin American country before 1930. Challenging conventional views on agricultural mechanization in Chile, the article shows that a progressive sector of upper-class landowners and state experts introduced...
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Mule South to Tractor South: Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South

Brady Banta
Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.1.133
Published: 01 January 2010
...Brady Banta Mule South to Tractor South: Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South . George Ellenberg . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 BookReviews MuleSouthtoTractorSouth:Mules,Machinesa,nd theTransformatiofnthe CottonSouth.By GeorgeEllenbergT...
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“The Quickest Way Possible”: Iowa Farm Families and Tractor-Drawn Combines, 1940–1960

J. L. Anderson
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 669–688.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.4.669
Published: 01 October 2002
... Combine advertisement Wallaces’ Farmer , 17 May1941 "The quickest way possible": Iowa Farm Families and Tractor-drawn Combines, 1940-1960 J.L.ANDERSON "Sit-Down HARVEST RIDE?AND WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK; FAMILY HARVEST INSTEAD OF THRESHING GANG The man operating an All-Crop Harvester stopped near...
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Debating Farm Power: Draft Animals, Tractors, and the United States Department of Agriculture

George B. Ellenberg
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 545–568.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.545
Published: 01 April 2000
...George B. Ellenberg Debating Farm Power: Draft Animals, Tractors, and the United States Department Agriculture of GEORGE B. ELLENBERG Beginning around 1920, tractor and draft animal advocates clashed over the issue of what type of power best suited American agriculture. Each side in this debate...
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The Steel Wheel: From Progress to Protest and Back Again in Canada, Mexico, and Bolivia

Royden Loewen, Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 172–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.2.172
Published: 01 April 2018
...Royden Loewen; Ben Nobbs-Thiessen Abstract This article offers a transnational history of migrant material culture by exploring the changing meanings of the steel-wheeled tractor. A defining innovation, the steel wheel transformed North American agriculture but by mid-twentieth century had been...
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The Farm Debut of the Gasoline Engine

Carrie A. Meyer
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 287–313.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.3.287
Published: 01 July 2013
... of gas engines on farms had exploded to one million. The skills gained by hundreds of thousands of farmers with these engines facilitated the rapid adoption of the automobile on farms and the more gradual adoption of the tractor. Yet the use of such engines has received scant attention. This paper...
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Modernized Farming but Stagnated Production: Swedish Farming in the 1950s Emerging Welfare State

Carin Martiin
Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 559–583.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2015.089.4.559
Published: 01 October 2015
..., and the authorities were glad to avoid surpluses. On the input side, the area of arable land decreased, and the labor force declined drastically, primarily due to fewer smallholdings and fewer employees on the largest farms. Moreover, the decade saw a huge wave of mechanization, in the form of tractors...
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Iowa Farmers and Mechanical Corn Pickers, 1900–1952

Thomas Burnell Colbert
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 530–544.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.530
Published: 01 April 2000
...Thomas Burnell Colbert Iowa Farmers 1900-1952 and Mechanical Corn Pickers, THOMAS BURNELL COLBERT Large cropping equipment can be seen everywhere in Iowa today?from seven-ton tractors to twelve-ton self-propelled combines. All of these implements are a far cry from the machinery used from...
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Selling Safety: The Farm Safety Movement’s Emergence and Evolution from 1940–1975

Derek Oden
Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 412–438.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.4.412
Published: 01 October 2005
..., DC: GPO, 1942 ), 1 -55 "Learning the Tractor from A to Z," Extension Service Review ( Jan. 1943 ): 3 "Training New Hired Men," Extension Service Review (May1943): 69 "South Dakota Tractor Schools for Women, 1945 ," Extension Service Review ( Aug. 1945): 115 5 Claude R...
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“You’re a Bigger Man”: Technology and Agrarian Masculinity in Postwar America

J. L. Anderson
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.1.004
Published: 01 January 2020
... Harvester (IH) advertised a bold claim: YOU RE A BIGGER MAN WITH AN IH TRACTOR. The image depicted a pastoral landscape with the sun low in the sky over a tractor at work in the field. The scene is dominated by a giant male figure, standing in a grove of timber, sleeves rolled up, and gazing over his...
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An Alternative Means of Field Research: Extending Material Culture Analysis to Farm Implements

Cameron L. Saffell
Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 517–537.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2014.088.4.517
Published: 01 October 2014
... of Objects,” 205 . 7. For example, see, C. H. Wendel , Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors, 1890–1960 ( 2000 ; repr., Iola : KP Books , 2005 ); Wendel , Encyclopedia of Antique Tools &amp; Machinery ( Iola : Krause , 2001 ); Wendel , Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements...
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Figure 5. Auctioneer takes bids in the foreground, standing on the front tire of the John Deere tractor he is selling at the farm auction of Orville Luedtke. Luedtke leans against the tractor cab. Used with permission from Successful Farming, ©1984. Photography by Glenn Kohler, Meredith Operations Corporation. All rights reserved.

Auctioneer takes bids in the foreground, standing on the front tire of the ...

in The 1980s Farm Crisis: A Boots-on-the-Ground Retrospective > Agricultural History
Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 5. Auctioneer takes bids in the foreground, standing on the front tire of the John Deere tractor he is selling at the farm auction of Orville Luedtke. Luedtke leans against the tractor cab. Used with permission from Successful Farming , ©1984. Photography by Glenn Kohler, Meredith More
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Making Green Revolutions: Kansas Farms, Recovery, and the New Agriculture, 1918–1981

Kenneth M. Sylvester, Paul W. Rhode
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 342–368.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.3.342
Published: 01 July 2017
... of general-purpose tractors, see, Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode , “Reshaping the Landscape: The Impact and Diffusion of the Tractor in American Agriculture, 1910–1960,” Journal of Economic History 61 (Sept. 2001 ): 663 – 98 ; Olmstead and Rhode , Creating Abundance; Robert...
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"Women Who Work in the Field": The Changing Role of Farm and Nonfarm Women on the Farm

Stephanie A. Carpenter
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 465–474.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.465
Published: 01 April 2000
... glamorizing housework. In contrast to wartime advertisements that demonstrated women's abilities to handle farm machinery, equipment ad? vertisements in the immediate postwar period depicted men and boys driving tractors and using implements. Conversely, after 1945 the women's pages were devoted to household...
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Cotton on the Federal Road to Economic Development: Technology and Labor Policies Following World War II

Wayne A. Grove
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 272–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.272
Published: 01 April 2000
... picked with their bare hands. Instead of employing seven hundred people (some 130 fami? lies), Hopson produced the cotton crop with tractors, flame-throwers, and sundry other equipment but no field hands. Collier's magazine heralded Hopson's display of laborsaving technology as a "Revolution in Cotton...
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Vanishing Earth: Soil Erosion in the Palouse, 1930-1945

Andrew P. Duffin
Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 173–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.2.173
Published: 01 April 2005
..., 2 N. D. Showalter, "The Land on Which We Live," Washington Farmer, Nov. 12, 1936, 6 "What Is Soil Consciousness?" Washington Farmer, Apr. 15,1937,6 15 James F. Shepherd, "The Development of Wheat Production in the Pacific North¬ west," Agricultural History49 (Jan.1975): 266 -67 "Tractor...
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Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery

Leo E. Landis
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 502–504.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11225694
Published: 01 August 2024
..., in the later section on International Harvester's multimedia productions of the 1910s, Ott references “farmers riding tractors and binders,” and “driving combines” (154). Farmers were experimenting with International Harvester tractors to pull binders, but functional, self-propelled combines did not come...
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The Amish: A Concise Introduction

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 453–454.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.3.453
Published: 01 July 2017
... about Amish agricultural practice beyond a discussion of the Amish and farm technology in the form of tractors and fertilizer. Additionally, the book is more about explaining what we see in the present day, rather than a more careful study of change over time. Nevertheless, as an introduction, the book...
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The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South

E. Stanly Godbold, Jr.
Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 530–532.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.4.530
Published: 01 October 2001
..., NorwegianAmericans Arthur and Douglas Rongen had shifted to tractor-powered haying equipment and had replaced loose hay with small bales. The passing of the workhorse seemed at the time to represent the ultimate achievement of technology. But as Larry Hoffbeck found in the 1970s and early 1980s, new machines did...
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Technology and Gender in Swedish Agriculture: Masculinity and Femininity in Swedish Advertisements for Milking Machines from the 1920s through the 1950s

Mats Morell, Grey Osterud
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 376–412.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11207141
Published: 01 August 2024
... depicting men performing unmechanized field work rose until 1941. The proportion showing men doing tractor work also rose (except for 1941) and then soared in 1955, reflecting the rapid increase in the number of tractors after World War II. The principal technical breakthrough for milking machines...
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