Editor's Note: As the year came to a close, we once again asked the DTN/Progressive Farmer reporting team to pick out the most significant, most fun or otherwise their favorite, story of 2025. We hope you enjoy our writers' favorites, continuing the series with today's story by DTN Staff Reporter Russ Quinn.

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OMAHA (DTN) -- Everyone loves lists.

My favorite article I wrote in 2025 was "The Top 10 Tractors I Want in My Shed," which was posted in my Russ' Vintage Iron column on July 1. This tractor list is a bit of dreaming -- of both an endless supply of money to buy these vintage tractors and an infinite supply of shed space.

I have written list stories in the past for my column and other articles. Several years ago, in 2020, I wrote a Top 10 list of what I thought were the most popular vintage tractor models of all-time. See https://www.dtnpf.com/….

I received MANY responses from readers. Once again, everyone loves lists.

Before writing my 2025 column, I wrote down some tractor make/models I had always admired both from a distance and up close. This original list was 20-some-odd tractors long, so I had to cut it in half.

About half of my list included tractors I like generally while the other half of the list were specific tractors. I thought this was a nice mixture of both worlds.

My top tractor that I wanted in my shed was a specific tractor -- a 1945 International Farmall M.

As I explained in the column, my grandpa bought a new M after the end of World War II. It was later traded in by my dad and my uncle when they started farming in the late 1960s. We can trace it to a local farm equipment auction in the late 1970s, but no one knows who bought it that day.

Without knowing the M's serial number and it was not a local person buying it at the auction nearly 50 years ago, there is very little chance I will ever find this particular tractor.

But this was part of the fun of writing my column, to come up with my list of dream tractors I would want to see in my shed.

What tractors would be on your list?

To see the entire list in the column, click https://www.dtnpf.com/….

Russ Quinn can be reached at Russ.Quinn@dtn.com

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