HADDAM -- The joyous squeals of children on rides mixed with the smell of barbecued chicken cooking over a pit on Saturday. The sound of a vehicle's engine revving and running at full throttle drowned ...

Many farm operators provide some type of custom work or use of farm machinery to other farmers during the growing season, and payment is usually made following the completion of the harvest season.

The first recorded tractor pull likely was held in 1939 in Missouri on a farm. “Farmers wanted to go home with the bragging rights on who had the better tractor,” said Dennis Thomas, who has run the ...