While Farmer Dougel is still asleep one morning, Sheep and his friends find the perfect opportunity to have fun with a tractor.

Because of his dislike for fieldwork, especially harvesting grain, McCormick's life work was dedicated to developing a successful mechanical reaper, and, as a result, building a successful manufacturing empire. Black and white photos and period sketches with brief captions add to the text.

Modern tractor technology, structure and operation, including tractor safety information, including a slow-moving tractor sign and what it signifies. Includes a vocabulary list.

Farmers in the mid 1880s complained that the moist soil of the Midwest US stopped their plows by sticking to the blades. John Deere was a young blacksmith who figured out how to make a steel plow that could clean itself.

John Deere's farm equipment brand is famous around the world, but people may not know the story behind the man himself. Deere's humble blacksmith beginnings and a simple plow eventually led to massive success, but it wasn't' easy. The story behind the name will give readers new appreciation for the popular green tractors and equipment around today.

Early readers will learn how tractors work and about tractor components, modern tractor technology, structure and operation.

Learn how to identify mystifying gadgets used in the past by farmers, millers, woodworkers, metal workers, printers and doctors.

Macaulay pays tribute to the historically important mills of 19th Century New England. Using close-up pen-and-ink illustrations, he thoroughly explains the Yankee ingenuity that went into the elaborate process of running machines that were generated by the flow of water. He also examines the importance of the mill to one community's economic and social viability.

Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, that's who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, that's who! Beautiful illustrations—including spectacular landscapes—reflect the time period and bring John Deere's remarkable story to life.

Tour of the kinds of hardworking vehicles found on a farm. Uses images and text to introduce readers to combines, harvesters and other common farm vehicles.

Examines the history and complexity of center pivot irrigation through instructive and beautiful photographs and shows how the technology helps producers nourish our world.

Farm fields can span hundreds of acres. With so much area to cover, checking crops and livestock can be difficult. But with an agricultural drone, this job becomes much simpler. Young readers will discover how drones help farmers maximize efficiencies and bring abundant harvests.

A porcine farmer and his hired hand (a jackass) experience a series of farcical misadventures.