Minneapolis-Moline

And this is a small town in western Kansas.

He owned the Minneapolis Moline dealership, the car dealership, the gas station.

And so...

He was

I'm looking out over a beautiful field of wheat that looks like it was planted by the best of the best computerized equipment that you could find there's not one gap in the rows there's no missing plants every little gap is filled in with a plant and every row is solid and straight and all of the rows are butted up against each other to where you can't even tell where each pass was made with the drill they're lined up so even look so nice that if I snapped a picture of that and told everyone that I used a $50,000 computerized drill to plant that, you would believe me and say, yes, it did a great job.

What I used was a 1943 Minneapolis Moline monitor drill with big old iron wheels.

And it's a double run drill that has gears that set the seeding rate.

So it's not a computerized drill, but a computed drill.

If you wake up and you're surrounded by yellow tractors and bailers and other related farm equipment, they will have rebelled, right?

Unless, of course, they're Minneapolis Moline's, which means it's an antique display that's rolled into town.

And I'd go see them.

But I don't think we're going to see the equivalent of what we saw in Canada with the international harvesters in the case and the John Deere's coming down the road.

If I wanted...

I think about my grandpa Mike, who used to have this Minneapolis Moline tractor with just this yellow tractor, big yellow giant tractor with no cab, so it's just sitting in the elements on his seat driving the tractor, and it had a little umbrella [laughs] for shade.

[laughs]

And he had this cranky old radio that he had welded onto the tractor to listen to the baseball game.

And, and I, I, I know people talk about this.

If I wanted-- I think about my Grandpa Mike, who used to have this Minneapolis Moline tractor with just this yellow tractor, big yellow giant tractor with no cab.

So he's just sitting in the elements on his seat driving the tractor, and it had a little umbrella [laughs] for shade.

And he had this cranky old radio that he had welded onto the tractor to listen to the baseball game.