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About Case IH

It’s called Harvester Red #50, and since 1936 the unmistakably bold hue has been emblazoned on tractors, harvesters, and many other kinds of agricultural machinery from the company now known as Case IH. The manufacturer’s origins stretch back nearly a century to an inventor in Wisconsin with an innovative thresher.

Today, Case IH is known for all types of bright red agricultural equipment, including the aforementioned tractors and harvesters as well as tillage equipment, fertilizer equipment, planting equipment, hay and forage equipment, and more. The manufacturer also offers its Advanced Farming Systems precision ag products, including AFS Connect remote technologies.

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Case IH Axial-Flow 8250

Case IH History

Jerome Increase Case founded the Racine Threshing Machine Works in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1842. His thresher designs increasingly separated straw from grain more efficiently with power sources such as horses and steam. 

In 1847, Cyrus McCormick founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which would later become International Harvester. The legacies of these two manufacturers made major impacts on modern agriculture long before they intertwined some 140 years later.

J.I. Case and Company produced a horse-drawn steam engine tractor in 1869 and a self-propelled (but horse-steered) traction steam engine in 1876, both industry firsts, according to Case IH. The company also claims that it led the world in steam engine production in 1886. Case built a gasoline-powered tractor in 1892, but a lack of demand forced it to wait until 1911 to reintroduce the tractor to the market.

The International Harvester Company was formed in 1902 as McCormick merged with Deering Harvester Company and three other farm equipment manufacturers in a merger brokered by financier J.P. Morgan. The new company’s kerosene-powered Titan 10-20 and Titan 15-30 tractors, introduced in 1915, pulled plows and powered threshing machines. In 1919, IH engineer Edward A. Johnston put the first commercial power take-off unit on the firm’s 8-16 tractor and designed PTO-driven implements for it.

Iconic Products Emerge

Another IH engineer, Bert Benjamin, developed the first lightweight Farmall tractor in 1923. The 10-horsepower (7.5-kilowatt) Farmall’s wheels fit between crop rows while its PTO-powered implements handled plowing, cultivating, and harvesting tasks, gradually replacing draft animals on American farms.

International Harvester introduced the United States’ first diesel-powered production wheeled tractor, the McCormick-Deering WD-40, in 1935. High-horsepower Steiger tractors entered commercial production in 1963. Case’s Axial Flow Combine appeared in 1977, providing high grain quality and retention. In 1980, IH debuted its 2+2 articulated tractor with the operator’s station in the rear.

Case IH was born in 1985 when Case acquired International Harvester’s agricultural division, becoming the second-largest manufacturer of ag equipment. The company added Steiger tractors to its product family the following year, and in 1988 showed the fruits of its combined Case and IH engineering with the Magnum tractor. The economical, all-purpose Maxxum tractor followed in 1989. In 1996, the 4-tracked Steiger Quadtrac tractor made its debut in a 360-HP (268-kW) model.

Case IH introduced its first Advanced Farming Systems technologies in 1995, using satellites to help farmers monitor their crop yields. Over time, AFS tools have evolved into highly advanced remote management, auto-guidance and auto-steering, section- and rate-control, and harvest-monitoring and -mapping technologies.

Case IH acquired Tyler Manufacturing and its Patriot sprayers in 1998, as well as the agricultural equipment business of DMI including its Ecolo-Tiger and Tiger-Mate tillage equipment and Nutri-Placer fertilizer applicators. In 1999, Fiat Group acquired Case Corporation and merged it with New Holland N.V. to create CNH Global, which includes Case Construction Equipment (CE) as well as Case IH on the agricultural side.

In the 21st Century, Case IH continued to generate headlines such as the introduction of CVX continuously variable transmissions in 2000, the birth of the Magnum Rowtrac tractor in 2015, and the announcement of a new autonomous concept vehicle in 2016.

Product Lines

As of the early 2020s, Case IH had a presence in more than 160 countries. The company’s agricultural equipment line includes:

• Steiger, Magnum, and Optum tractors in four-wheel drive (4WD), Rowtrac, and track configurations
• Puma, Maxxum, and Vestrum all-purpose tractors
• Farmall compact, utility, and specialty tractors
• Axial-Flow combines and corn, draper, flex auger, grain, and pickup heads

Among Case IH’s full range of other farm and agricultural equipment for sale are:

• Early Riser planters, Precision Disk and Flex Hoe air drills, and Precision Air air carts
• Patriot and Miller Nitro sprayers, Titan floaters, Nutri-Placer fertilizer applicators, and Trident combination applicators
• Loaders and their attachments for material handling
• Implements for property maintenance such as mowing and snow removal

Case IH also manufactures tillage equipment including disk harrows, in-line and disk rippers, vertical tillage, and field cultivators, along with hay and forage equipment including windrowers, rotary disc and sickle bar headers, wheel rakes, disc mowers, disc and sickle bar mower conditioners, forage harvesters, and round and square balers.

Additionally, the company displays wheel and track skid steers on its website that are manufactured under its Case Construction Equipment sister brand.

Find Case IH Equipment

You’ll find new and used Case IH farm equipment for sale in all of its variety at TractorHouse.com. Popular tractor models include the manufacturer’s Magnum 340 series, Magnum 250 series, Maxxum 125 series, and Farmall 75 series tractors. Other frequently listed Case IH machines include 8250 combines, 1250 planters, Speed-Tiller 475 disks, Tiger-Mate 200 field cultivators, RB565 round balers, and Patriot 4440 sprayers.