17, with three special events including a commemoration, combine caravan and parade. Gleaner, a leading combine brand manufactured by AGCO (NYSE:AGCO), boasts many innovations, including being the world's first self-propelled combine, introduced in 1923.

Does Gleaner still make combines?

Gleaner has been a popular brand of combine harvester particularly in the Midwestern United States for many decades, first as an independent firm, and later as a division of Allis-Chalmers. The Gleaner brand continues today under the ownership of AGCO.

Who manufactures Gleaner combines?

AGCO Corporation, a major worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, has announced that manufacturing of its Gleaner combines will be returning to Kansas, to within just a few miles of where three brothers from Nickerson, introduced the first self-propelled Gleaner combine.