(30 quotes found)
“With the electronics that have been added, the farmer can put a black box in the tractor or combine and just push a button telling all that stuff how to react to the different sensors. The ability to do some of the creative things with our planters, like variable speeds and guidance systems, all came from electro-hydraulics.”
Alan Anderson
“For two months after I couldn't even go in [the barn] and look at the tractor, ... But as I went through the winter, I got the fever again and couldn't help myself.”
Allen Moore
“Our goal is to send a tractor-trailer down to the Gulf Coast every week. We have sent three already since the [Hooters] airplane [donated by owner Robert Brooks] went down there [Sept. 7]. People thought that once we sent the airplane and the first tractor-trailer down there that that was it. But this is just the beginning. ... We are planning to try to help Hurricane Rita evacuees as well.”
Alton Swann
“I call this 'high-tech meets the tractor' kind of project. The importance of the economic development of a $100 million plant can't be overstated. But what it does to (the price of) a bushel of corn also affects the farmer.”
Bill Henderson
“The worst rows were adjacent to the traffic patterns, next to the tractor and combine wheels, which were rows four, five, eight and nine. The best yields were on the outside edges of both sides — rows one and 12 — in a north-south oriented field.”
Bob Recker
“The tractor-trailers have jackknifed and there is no way to get around.”
Cecil Whaley
“We'll have a mule out demonstrating how to plow a plot of land without a tractor. We're trying to show alternative technology, simpler technology. We're trying to introduce technology that makes sustainable organic farming a possibility without relying on gas and oil.”
Danica Adams
“The cost of everything has gone up. Whether it is pesticides, diesel, generator, tractor or running the bore.”
Daljit Singh
“That reduces you're capacity down to 24 vehicles. On a normal trip with no tractor trailer you can take around 32. Sometimes you're still going to have the problem with up there and not getting on. If there's tractor trailer traffic your chances of getting on are reduced somewhat.”
William Bailey
“Everybody had a tractor in the '40s. There's not much farming now. In the '40s and '50s you had more farmers than you had people working in the cities.”
Don Davis
