Two Men Bought Tractors at the Same Auction—Only One Kept His Farm скачать в хорошем качестве

Two Men Bought Tractors at the Same Auction—Only One Kept His Farm

In April 1987, a New Holland dealership closed after forty-one years. Everything went to auction. Two farmers attended. One saw opportunity and bought aggressively—six tractors, seventy-six thousand dollars, financed over ten years. The other bought a single worn 3930 for twenty-five hundred dollars cash and left early. Over the next three decades, their farms followed opposite paths. One expanded rapidly, chasing growth and yield, confident the numbers would work. The other stayed small, avoided debt, and kept the same tractor running year after year. This is not a story about equipment. It is a story about restraint, patience, and the slow reveal of consequences that take decades to unfold. It is about the difference between what looks like opportunity and what turns out to be survival. By 2024, only one of them was still farming. This story is for reflection and storytelling purposes only.