  In this article, I review recent measurements of the production of the top
quark in $p\bar p$ collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt s=1.96$~TeV
in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, recorded by the CDF and D0
Collaborations. I will present the Tevatron combination of measurements of the
$t\bar t$ production cross section and its differential measurement, the first
evidence for and observation of the production of single top quarks in the
$s$-channel, as well the final Tevatron combination of the production of single
top quarks the $s$- and $t$-channels. Furthermore, I will review the
measurements of the forward-backward asymmetry in $t\bar t$ events, which can
be experimentally uniquely accessed in the $CP$-invariant $p\bar p$ initial
state at the Tevatron, and conclude with the measurements of this asymmetry in
the $b\bar b$ system.
