Farm Collector – March 2019

Loren says. “After being in business for a year, he built “Dad’s business was located on old Highway 30,”

a new building where he sold Minneapolis-Moline,

Ferguson, Kewaunee and Valley equipment and fea-tured a feed dealership. I spent a lot of time at the

store sweeping, helping with assembly and joining employees for coffee breaks at the local restaurant.”

Donald used Minneapolis-Moline equipment on the

family farm, spawning a fondness in Loren’s heart for the Minneapolis-Moline models R, Z, U and UB. Loren

also recalls his father’s use of many Minneapolis-

Moline implements.

MM Life

T

he histories of Moline Plow Co.

and Minneapolis-Moline Power

Implement Co. are interwoven with

Loren Book’s own family history.

His father, Donald L. Book, operated Book

Implement in Nevada, Iowa, from 1949

through 1962.

LIVING THE

MINNEAPOLIS-MOLINE IS AT HEART

OF IOWA MAN’S LIFELONG HOBBY

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By Loretta Sorensen