NORTH HENDERSON, Ill. – Almost 80 years ago Bill Meeker’s father and grandfather bought an Oliver 70 tractor. It was the first Oliver in the family. “It’s a 1942 model. I’m a 1943 model. It’s been ...

Every year, the Camp Creek Threshers show near Waverly features a huge amount of farm machinery and tractors. Jon Vanderford caught up with John Zakovec of Lincoln to talk to him about some of the ...

Douglas "Oliver" Bush of Middletown has been around Oliver tractors most of his life. He is originally from eastern Pennsylvania, where he worked on a farm for his great-uncle who used Oliver tractors ...

There is nothing quite like spending a Saturday with antique tractor collectors which was reaffirmed at a recent meeting on a south-central Kansas farm. Jim and Cedric Blough recently hosted a meeting ...

The Oliver Farm Equipment Company added a second row-crop tractor to its line in the fall of 1935. The Oliver Hart-Parr Row Crop 70 continued to display both the Oliver and Hart-Parr names and ...

Nevada may never have had a resident as passionate about Oliver tractors as the recently departed Wilbert Hadley. Except maybe his son, Tim Hadley, who will now carry on the tradition of collecting ...

On October 31, 1944, the Cleveland Tractor Company and its line of Cletrac crawlers were purchased by the Oliver Farm Equipment Company. Oliver then changed its corporate name to the Oliver ...

The restoration of a 1946 “70” Oliver tractor belonging to Hampshire couple Rod and Kathy Miller was completed just in time for the Fourth of July weekend. The former green tractor now displays the ...

In decades past, when agriculture played an even bigger role at county fairs, implement dealers flocked to their local fair to display the latest machines they had on hand. One of those displaying ...

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 ...

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