If you happened to wander through the youth mechanical-science exhibits at the Dodge County Fair this year, you were treated to a rare surprise.

Pete Freiheit was a farm kid who developed a love for history -- most of all the tractors used on his farm. So he started tinkering with some tools and built a few model tractors -- thousands of ...

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And while Clemmons’s tractor does not rely on software, this model could extend to software-dependent tractors, like John Deere’s, primarily by making the software’s source code accessible. Among his ...

His next acquisition as a youngster was a model of the next series of tractor used on the family farm, one with rubber tires. "I like the history," Tarvella said as he recounted the progress from ...

The model farm is a way to not only keep his memories alive of farming, but remind his children of their upbringing on the farm. "Our daughters looked at it and got teary eyed," Rand said.