Why the 1930's ford tractor changed farming forever
If you've ever spotted a 1930's ford tractor rusting gracefully in a field or shining at a local county fair, you're looking at more than just a piece of old iron. You're looking at the machine that basically took the horse out of the field and replaced it with something a lot more reliable, even if those early models were a bit temperamental. The 1930s were a wild decade for agriculture, stuck right in the middle of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, and yet, this was the era when Ford really figured out how to make a tractor that the average farmer could actually afford and use. ...