Sampling Of Stories Featured in the Current Issue of FARM SHOW Magazine:
Change Is Good, Right?
They say change is good. Most of us only change when we are forced to. Such was the case here at FARM SHOW. In November, our system for tracking accounts, orders, and subscriptions failed, and we couldn’t repair it due to the age of the software and computers used to run it.
If you check the l...
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Best of FARM SHOW 2025
Our annual Best of FARM SHOW is out for 2025. Read it FREE here:
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This 56 page book features some of the best articles and compaines we have featured in the past.
Best of FARM SHOW is delive...
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Combine Engine Swapped Into 50-Year-Old Tractor
In 2023, Mitch Fenske and his friend Barry Schimke repowered a 756 Farmall tractor with a school bus engine (Vol. 47, No. 5). It turned out so well that in 2024, Fenske repowered a 1974 IH 766. He replaced the tractor’s D360 engine, rated at 80 hp., with a D436 engine from an IH 1440 combine...
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Shop-Built Trailer Still Rolling After 25 Years
After building and selling six trailers, Norman Sieting built one that satisfied him. While he eventually sold it to a neighbor, he kept a close eye on it and used it as needed. Recently, he even helped with an upgrade. After 25 years and three deck replacements and repainting, Sieting repor...
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Homemade Cage Makes Handling Calves Easy
Mark Bauman often faced problems with tagging, handling and moving newborn calves to shelter in poor weather. To compensate, he built a metal cage from scratch that he could transport with his tracked skid loader.
The cage measured 8 by 8 ft. square and 5 ft. in height. Bauman used 1/8-in. thi...
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Shop-Built Emergency Brake For IH 706
At nearly 80, Steve Vargo had no interest in jumping off his IH 706, so he engineered an emergency stop. He did so after backing it out of his shed and finding himself without steering or brakes. Headed downhill, jumping might have been his only alternative.
“Luckily, I had a manure pallet on ...
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