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The JD Dealer Bet $15,000 His New Tractor Would Crush the Junkyard Farmall — He Lost Everything in 9
On a Saturday afternoon in August of 1975 at the Plat County Fair in Columbus, Nebraska, a John Deere dealer named Wayne Puit…
They Mocked the Last Farmer Still Using Mules in 1970 — When Gas Prices Tripled, He Was the Only One
In the spring of 1970, on a dirt road outside of Lamar, Missouri, a John Deere dealer named Curtis Vance pulled his truck…
The JD Dealer Offered $500 For His Junk Farmall and Called Him Crazy — 15 Years Later He Begged to B
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