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TRACTOR WARS

Author: Neil Dahlstrom

Hardcover

288 pages

11370

7 total reviews

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Discover the untold story of the “tractor wars,” the twenty-year period that introduced power farming - the most fundamental change in world agriculture in hundreds of years.

A researcher, historian, and writer, Neil Dahlstrom has spent decades in the corporate archives at John Deere. In Tractor Wars, Dahlstrom offers an insider’s view of a story that entwines a myriad of brands and characters, stakes and plots: the Reverend Daniel Hartsough, a pastor turned tractor designer; Alexander Legge, the eventual president of International Harvester, a former cowboy who took on Henry Ford; William Butterworth and the oft-at-odds leadership team at John Deere that partnered with the enigmatic Ford but planned for his ultimate failure.

With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture—a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world.

Customer Reviews

Based on 7 reviews
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Kevin Stephenson
Great read!!

Tractor wars is a great resource that explains how the tractor industry got started and how each company played a role. Its story is heavily weighted toward John Deere, and I’m an IH fan, but it was still very informative.

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Mark bragg
Tractor wars

Not the topic I expected.

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John Ashurst
DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW

SEEMED DISJOINTED....TOO MUCH SKIPPING 1880'S TO 1920'S

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David Poole

Very interesting book. It holds my interest!

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Dwight Messersmith

TRACTOR WARS: JOHN DEERE, HENRY FORD, INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER, AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN AGRICULTURE

Customer Reviews

Based on 7 reviews
71%
(5)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
14%
(1)
14%
(1)
K
Kevin Stephenson
Great read!!

Tractor wars is a great resource that explains how the tractor industry got started and how each company played a role. Its story is heavily weighted toward John Deere, and I’m an IH fan, but it was still very informative.

M
Mark bragg
Tractor wars

Not the topic I expected.

J
John Ashurst
DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW

SEEMED DISJOINTED....TOO MUCH SKIPPING 1880'S TO 1920'S

D
David Poole

Very interesting book. It holds my interest!

D
Dwight Messersmith

TRACTOR WARS: JOHN DEERE, HENRY FORD, INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER, AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN AGRICULTURE