{"id":48130,"date":"2025-06-10T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=48130"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:02:53","slug":"preserving-farm-history-one-tractor-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/preserving-farm-history-one-tractor-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserving Farm History, One Tractor at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"499\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/books-at-Auburn-1.jpg?fit=666%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48131\" style=\"width:555px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/books-at-Auburn-1.jpg?w=666&amp;ssl=1 666w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/books-at-Auburn-1.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/books-at-Auburn-1.jpg?resize=260%2C195&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/books-at-Auburn-1.jpg?resize=160%2C120&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/books-at-Auburn-1.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Meet Steven Wilkens, author and owner of Iron Horse Tractor Restoration in Ceresco, Michigan. Specializing in Ford\/Ferguson, Allis Chalmers, and Farmall tractors, Wilkens is dedicated to saving American farm heritage by restoring antique and pre-1970 machines. Catch him at the Old Huskers Tractor Show in Grabill on June 14th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Steven Wilkens, author and owner of Iron Horse Tractor Restoration in Ceresco, Michigan. Specializing in Ford\/Ferguson, Allis Chalmers, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,6],"tags":[25943,25942,4716,25944,25941],"class_list":["post-48130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-area-fairs","category-community","tag-ceresco","tag-iron-horse-restoration","tag-michigan","tag-old-huskers-tractor-show","tag-steven-wilkens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/books-at-Auburn-1.jpg?fit=666%2C499&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-cwi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 07:27:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48132,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48130\/revisions\/48132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}