John Barron
Journalist and TV show host
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Aug 1, 2026
Farm Technology, Harry Ferguson, and Open Farms
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Eve BlairHOST
So they're putting a lot of work, a lot of effort into that, really marking the fact that he made such a remarkable contribution to farming.
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11:20John BarronGUEST
He was probably one of the greatest innovators that the world of agriculture has ever known.
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11:26John BarronGUEST
He created the Ferguson system of farming, which was first saw light of day in the black tractor that he built in 1935 in collaboration with a team of local people here that he had surrounded himself with.
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80% of all of the tractors in the world that are built since then incorporate the Ferguson system.
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He was also the first man in Ireland to fly a plane, the second man in the British Isles to fly a plane of his own manufacture.
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11:54John BarronGUEST
He came from a culture here in Northern Ireland at the time when he went into the workforce around 1902.

Eve BlairHOST
What impact did that have on Harry Ferguson growing up here in this landscape? What impact did that have on him as an innovator?
New Sports Dude
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3:12John BarronGUEST
So for the last 16 years, I remember very fondly, 2010, the Christmas that we had the entire family come out.
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3:19John BarronGUEST
And that's like one of the first times I've really kind of, you know, remember being in snow.

TJ TroutHOST
So are you going to be able to survive in a state with no major, major pro sports teams?
Episode 314: Growing An Employee Movement & Engagement Platform - with John Barron from GoChallenge
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7:37BenHOST
How does it work for them?
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7:45John BarronGUEST
And what we do at the end of it is that if an employee completes all challenges, that they get some reward.
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7:50John BarronGUEST
So one company we're working with at the moment gives an extra day's annual leave the following year.
6 MINS LATER
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13:43BenHOST
Can I tell you about it? Or can I have a meeting? What do you do? What's your message?
Full Show Podcast - 24th May 2026
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Colm FlynnCORRESPONDENT
He traveled around Ireland demonstrating them at agricultural shows, and once again, his ability to put on a good demonstration got people's attention.
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29:27John BarronGUEST
The demonstrations were so impressive, he was asked by the Department of Agriculture at the time, I think it was called the Board of Agriculture in Ireland, um, would he help farmers to, uh, grow extra cereal for the war effort because Ireland was remitted to grow, I think, another 500,000 acres of cereal by the British government for the war effort.
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29:49John BarronGUEST
So Ferguson was asked to help farmers in the tillage areas of Ireland to, to achieve that.
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30:00John BarronGUEST
They were dangerous, and of course, the, the majority of farmers at the time on the smaller farms were using horse-drawn traction.
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30:08John BarronGUEST
So Ferguson then set out really to improve the plow, and over a period of time, up until 1933, he developed what was known as the Ferguson system.
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Colm FlynnCORRESPONDENT
With all this, uh, success in business, was he a very wealthy man? Was he happy? Was he satisfied?
Harry Ferguson
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Colm FlynnCORRESPONDENT
Now there isn't a huge amount of detail about Ferguson's early childhood, but if we jump forward to 1902, we find him moving to Belfast to work for his older brother Joe, who had set up a car and cycle repair business on the Shankill Road.

Colm FlynnCORRESPONDENT
And once again, his ability to put on a good demonstration got people's attention.
Breaking Point with David Zere - May 16, 2026
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22:14John BarronGUEST
Yeah, so the Orca is supposed to be a mass-produced, mass-operated aircraft, right? So we make them here in Virginia, or sorry, in Virginia where we're from.
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And the idea is we designed for easy manufacturing, wide use, and operable by as many folks as possible, right? So what you see here is the basic Orca, right? So this is what we start off with.
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In this case, here at Camp Atterbury, our mission was a one-way attack, right? And one-way attack, FPV Ukrainian style, requires a bunch of other equipment to make it fully useful, right? So here we also have a relay for the Orca so that we can see it all the way to the bottom.
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24:52John BarronGUEST
And we're working with the folks over at Cochise County, and we're trying to integrate into their border monitoring system out there.
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25:00John BarronGUEST
Are you working with DHS? Just local for now, but I think eventually they all work for DHS.
