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Old Tractors Don’t Die, They Just Ride in Parades

The Great Eastern Iowa Tractorcade passed by grain silos in Lamont last June.

What do you call 460 antiquated farm tractors clattering across the highways of rural Iowa, covering 140 miles at the killer pace of 11 miles an hour over three days of June?

Some people might call it a traffic jam, but to the folks who look forward to it every year, it’s the annual Great Eastern Iowa Tractorcade, and it brings out an eclectic collection of old farm tractors, along with equally old farmers and collectors of all ages nostalgic for the days before big agribusiness put eight-wheel monsters into fields of corn and soybeans, according to The New York Times.

Posted by Peter C. T. Elsworth  at 10:30 AM to Shows | Permalink

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