Henry Ford grew up in a farming community, and once he had got the Ford Motor Company established, after a couple of false starts, he became interested in building a 'Model T for farms'. Development continued until 1916 before the Model F was ready for production, and the British government sanctioned production in the UK. The name 'Fordson' (from Henry Ford and Son) was first used in 1918. In 1919 Ford signed an agreement with the Soviet Union and exported 25,000 Fordson tractors until 1927. The 500,000th Fordson tractor was built in 1925, but in 1928 Henry Ford ended Fordson production in the United States, and transferred it to Cork and to Dagenham; the new Model N started at Cork in 1927. In 1938 Henry Ford met Harry Ferguson and a new Fordson Model 9N was designed with its unique three-point linkage, and this encouraged Ford to take Fordson production back to the United States. But the Fordson E27N was introduced in 1945 and made in the UK.