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Tractor Wars – DVD
For thousands of years, farming was driven by the muscle of either animals or humans. With the invention of the steam engine, industrialists brought seam power to farms. The inventions of the reaper and steel plow began a rush to mechanize farming. By the dawn of the 20th century, hundreds of companies were experimenting with vehicles to bring power farming to agriculture.
In 1909, there was a push to put powered implements in the hands of America’s farmers. By the 1920s, John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester were in a battle to develop a reliable tractor that would become part of everyday agriculture. By 1929, the three agricultural equipment manufacturing giants were among the few dozen companies that remained, but the tractor form we recognize today had finally emerged and began rapidly replacing muscle as the primary source of power on the farm.
