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TRACTOR book - Red cover

$29.95

This rollicking ride into machine history follows the innovators, entrepreneurs, and hucksters who transformed our world with farm machines of all colors. Starting with the turn-of-the-century visionaries who saw that four wheels and a motor could replace for the horse, the book moves swiftly through key early developments to cover the power farming movement of the latter part of the 20th Century–a time when major manufacturers lagged and independent builders and farmers began creating their own machines with a pencil drawing and a welder.

This hard-cover book is approximately 8" by 10".


** This book is the SAME book as the TRACTOR with the green cover. They just have different covers.
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TRACTOR book - Green cover

$29.95

This rollicking ride into machine history follows the innovators, entrepreneurs, and hucksters who transformed our world with farm machines of all colors. Starting with the turn-of-the-century visionaries who saw that four wheels and a motor could replace for the horse, the book moves swiftly through key early developments to cover the power farming movement of the latter part of the 20th Century–a time when major manufacturers lagged and independent builders and farmers began creating their own machines with a pencil drawing and a welder.

This hard-cover book is approximately 8" by 10".


** This book is the SAME book as the TRACTOR with the red cover. They just have different covers.
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National Show Tractors booklet
This is an official souvenir booklet of the 40th National Farm Toy Show featuring the past 40 years of show tractors! It is full of color photos and information about each tractor. This pocket-sized booklet measures 7 1/2" x 4". 

 $10 (shipping included!)

​IN STOCK NOW but we have Limited Quantities! 
Special Edition Toy Farmer
To coincide with the 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the Vintage 4WD Series of National Farm Toy Show® Tractors, a first-ever special edition of the Toy Farmer magazine is published. 

The core content is 10 articles authored for each of the 10 tractors in the Vintage 4WD Series.

$15.00 $5.00
 
Looking Back, 25 Years of Toy Farmer History
$15.00 $10.00
 
 
Looking Back, 25 Years of Toy Farmer History is a 100-page full-color soft-bound book explaining how the company and the National Farm Toy Show got started, history of Toy Farmer toys produced and much more!
National Farm Toy Museum 1/64th Farm Toy Price Guide & Check List
Pocket size (3.6 x 7.5) ​

Easy to use guide with over 170 pages! ​In Stock Now!
Shipping included! ​
$15
National Farm Toy Museum 1/64th Farm Toy Price Guide & Check List, Second Edition
Pocket size (3.6 x 7.5) ​

Easy to use guide with over 170 pages! ​In Stock Now!
Shipping included! ​
$14
2021 Farm Toy Price Guide & Check List
Pocket size (3.6 x 7.5) ​

Easy to use guide with over 170 pages! ​In Stock Now!
Shipping included! ​
$14
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Cranberry Red book
The fourth novel in Jerry Apps's Ames County series, Cranberry Red brings the story into the present, portraying the challenges of agriculture in the twenty-first century.

As the novel opens, Ben Wesley has lost hi job as agricultural agent for Ames County. He is soon hired as a research application specialist for Osborne University, a for-profit institution that has developed "Cranberry Red," a new chemical that promises not only to improve cranberry crop yields but also to endow the fruits with the power to prevent heart disease, reduce brain damage from strokes, and ward off Alzheimer's disease. Ben must promote the new product to cranberry growers in Ames County and beyond, but he worries whether the promised results are credible. Was Cranberry Red rushed to market?

When the chemical does all that the university claims it will do, Ben is relieved...until disturbing side effects emerge. Can he criticize Cranberry Red and safeguard farmers and consumers without losing his job, or will Ben's honesty get him fired while putting his community at risk?

Cranberry Red is a hard cover book containing 312 pages.

Limited Quantities! Purchase now or call 1-800-533-8293 or (701) 883-5206 w/your credit card! ​

$26.95 $10.00
Eat Rutabagas book
by Jerry Apps

Jerry's dad knows that no one can resist the taste of breaking ground rutabagas.

Follow Jerry and his dad as they plant, harvest and sell the cream of the rutabaga crop.

This hard-cover book is illustrated in full-color.

Limited Quantities! Purchase now or call 1-800-533-8293 or (701) 883-5206 w/your credit card! ​

$12.95 $10.00
Blue Shadows Farm book
hard cover

Fans of Jerry Apps will delight in his latest novel, Blue Shadows Farm, which follows the intriguing family story of three generations on a Wisconsin farm.

Silas Starkweather, A Civil War veteran, is drawn to Wisconsin and homesteads 160 aces in Ames County, where he is known as the mysterious farmer forever digging holes. After yhears of hardship and toil, however, Silas develops a commitment to farming his land and respect for his new community.

Through the story of the Starkweather family's changing fortunes, and each generation's very different relationship with the farm and the land, Blue Shadows Farm is in some ways the narrative of all farmers and the increasingly difficult challenges they face as committed stewards of the land.

Copyright 2009, is a hard cover, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" and contains 380 pages.

Limited Quantities! Purchase now or call 1-800-533-8293 or (701) 883-5206 w/your credit card! ​

$26.95 $10.00
The Travels of Increase Joseph - soft cover
$19.95 $10.00
 
 

by Jerry Apps

Plum Falls, New York, 1940s: Dismissed from Harvard Divinity School for his liberal views, Increase Joseph Link arrives home with a heavy heart.


He gives up his dream of becoming a minister to settle for life on the farm, until the day he is struck by lightning and hears a voice telling him to rise and speak.


This soft cover book contains 270 pages and is 5 1/2" by 8 1/2".


Limited Quantities! Purchase now or call 1-800-533-8293 or (701) 883-5206 w/your credit card! ​

Rust Book, Second Edition book
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19.95    
 
 
This is the ultimate auction book and the only guide you'll need, guaranteed. Auction guru Greg "Machinery Pete" Peterson has compiled over 9,600 auction prices covering all types of antique and classic tractors, implements, and trucks. No estimates, no guesses, no rules of thumb were used to arrive at these prices. This is an accumulation of the actual prices collectors have paid for machinery from the 1920s through the 1970s over the past 2 1/2 years.

And to assist in your search for old iron, we've also included the most complete listing of serial numbers by tractor make ever assembled, along with Nebraska Tractor Test results. This culmination of facts is just the ticket for anyone trying to put a price on old iron. Armed with this book, you can finally put a realistic limit on your final bid or a reasonable value to your collection.

This is a 416-page, soft-cover book that measures 5 1/4" x 8 3/8".

This book is related to real equipment, not toys. 

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