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Hurdle After Hurdle: The Story of Yetter's Climb to Success

The late owner of Yetter Manufacturing, Pat Whalen, says it was a “natural progression,” the way that his grandfather first got the company off the ground and his grandparents were able to start the company in 1930 during the Great Depression.

“At the time, the tractors had steel wheels on them and they were prone to plug up with mud. Harry Yetter, my grandfather, came up with a device that would scrape the mud off,” Whalen says. “His neighbor saw it and it was one of those things that mushroomed from his farm to other farms.”

But that was just the very beginning for the family manufacturing business. Whalen recalls many other products that would be added into production over the coming years to help grow the company even more.

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More than 12,000 visitors, nearly 500 historic Fendt Dieselross tractors and participants from five countries – the 2026 Fendt Dieselross meeting in Marktoberdorf was a celebration of agricultural machinery history. Watch the highlights!

Organised by the Fendt Classic Club International e.V. (FCCI), the event brought together Dieselross owners and enthusiasts from across Europe – and even Canada.