2015 Empire Farm Days: August 11

2015 Empire Farm Days: August 11-13
Rodman Lott and Son Farms, Seneca Falls, NY
Show Manager Melanie Wickham
877-697-7837, mwickham@empirefarmdays.com
PRESS RELEASE: 2015
Four Consecutive Serial Number 1954 Tractors to be at 2015 Empire Farm Days
Seneca Falls, NY – Antique tractor enthusiasts have a special treat in store at the 2015
Empire Farm Days to be held August 11-13 at the Rodman Lott and Son Farms, 2973
State Route 414, Seneca Falls, NY. The antique tractor display, affectionately known as
Old Iron at the largest outdoor agricultural trade show in the Northeastern U.S., will
feature four consecutive serial number Super MTA Farmall tractors.
“Finding two consecutively numbered tractors is a big deal in itself, four is mostly
unheard of,” says Howard Hemminger, president of the Bellona International Harvester
Antique Tractor Club.
Hemminger tells how the rare exhibit developed over nearly half a century.
“Marvin and Nancy Adams of Phelps, NY, owned one Super MTA and 44 years later
found a consecutively numbered tractor at an auction. They restored them and brought
them to Empire Farm Days in 2014. While walking through the exhibit they discovered a
third-in-the-row owned by Jack Thompson of Marietta,” Hemminger explains, “then, in
late December 2014, after reading a Red Power Magazine article on the tractor trio, Paul
Dudley of Cato called to say he had the fourth.”
Joining the celebrated crimson quartet of tractors at the antique tractor clubs’ exhibit at
the 2015 Empire Farm Days will be at least three 1940’s era International Harvester
trucks at the Bellona International Harvester Antique Tractor Club exhibit.
The Old Iron Parade that travels the center of the showgrounds daily at 2pm showcases
a mix of garden-size to large commercial production model tractors.
The three-day, 300-acre Empire Farm Days extravaganza also offers visitors an upclose look at new iron with all the latest farming equipment and vehicles on exhibit and
working in field demonstrations.
The Empire Farm Days Kiddie Tractor Pull presented by the NYS 4-H Foundation has
been expanded for 2015. The NYS FFA Tractor Driving Safety Contest will be held on
Thursday, August 13 at the show.
Ride and Drive experiences let visitors take wheel loaders, backhoes and skidsteers;
four-wheelers and utility vehicles, and skidsteers for a test run.
Find a full schedule of Empire Farm Days activities and more details at
www.empirefarmdays.com.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Howard Hemminger, Bellona International Harvester Antique Tractor Club, 315-7293595, howhem@gmail.com
Empire Farm Days Manager Melanie Wickham, 877-697-7837,
mwickham@empirefarmdays.com, EFD Publicist Kara Lynn Dunn, 315-465-7578,
karalynn@gisco.net
Photo:
Left to right: Marvin and Nancy Adams aboard their two consecutive serial number 1954
Super MTA Farmalls and Jack Thompson with a third-in-the-row at the 2014 Empire
Farm Days. The 2015 event that is the largest outdoor agricultural trade show in the
Northeastern U.S. will have a rare sequence of four of the 1954 tractors on exhibit at
Rodman Lott and Son Farms, Seneca Falls, August 11-13. Photo: Howard Hemminger.