Back in the twenties there were a LOT more people on the High Plains than there are today. It took a lot of manpower to farm a quarter section, which would have been a typical farm size. When I grew up in eastern Colorado, there were still quite a few farms; we had maybe half a dozen neighbors within a two-mile radius. Most of those homes are now gone or abandoned.
I remember my dad talking about farming back in the fifties; he had a pair of Allis WDs that ran almost constantly to keep up with a few hundred acres of summer fallow. In the seventies we had a JD 5010 that handled the same land in a fraction of the time. Of course, today, large four wheel drive tractors are the norm and farms are typically tens of thousands of acres.
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Nuffield Tractor - by Anthony West. The Nuffield tractor story started in early 1945. The British government still reeling from the effects of the war on the economy, approached the Nuffield organization to see if they would design and build an "ALL NEW" British built wheeled tractor, suitable for both British and world farming.
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