The headline of the (Ft. Collins Colorado) Weekly Courier read: WORLD’S RICHEST FARMER DIES IN TARKIO, Missouri. That article described the deceased as “an example of the rise of a poor boy to wealth ...
Out in the Johnson tool shed stands a pristine 1937 John Deere Model B. "Our dad bought it used in 1941 for $517 -- with a hand lever, two-row cultivator," says Paul Johnson.
The 1941 Minneaplis-Moline Model R row-crop tractor with enclosed cab was another attempt by M-M to aid operator comfort. But for a tractor that was used for crop cultivation during many weeks in the ...