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we're here in the Central Valley of
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California at the 53rd annual world egg
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Expo this started out as a small farm
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equipment show in 1968 since then it has
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grown to the largest outdoor
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agricultural equipment exposition in the
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world greatest little place in the
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country right now we'll have over a
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hundred thousand people here there are
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so many things to do so many different
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food options and so many different types
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of booths you can buy things you can
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learn about it it's basically like an
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educational State Fair this is
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absolutely amazing I expect it to be so
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massive and so much awesome equipment if
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you're a part of the Tulare community
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you're almost always going to find
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yourself involved in world egg Expo yeah
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we are pretty high up here we have a
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great look at the grounds but hey we
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don't mind getting high here World Expo
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gets bigger and bigger this year we're
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featuring hemp because it is newly back
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in the farm bill and as a legal crop now
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in this region especially is really
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really hungry for him they are begging
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for it it's still very new the people
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like to hear more about it I think that
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it's important to do more studies and
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more education about that I was like
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smoking weed you know we have a rare
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opportunity with this plant to shift the
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narrative about produce farming leafy
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green farming you know traditional AG in
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general where we can utilize some of
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these practices with this extremely
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chemically responsive plant and apply it
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to things that just could use the extra
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boost in effect we were honored for
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almost a million years
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roaming gathering hunting and then we
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turned around and start farming and that
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inflection point that took place 10,000
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years ago has been followed by
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innovations but the inflection point
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we're at the moment from a technology
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perspective is absolutely extraordinary
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our focus is on new technology the whole
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point of a farmer coming here is to find
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the way to more efficiently produce food
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to feed the world and do it in a
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environmentally friendly and economical
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way
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we were having a hard time getting
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natural due to bail hey my dad
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remembered seeing some tacos at a taco
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restaurant being steamed so he got some
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hay and brought it into my mom's kitchen
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and used a pressure cooker to make some
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steam and to soften the hay and the
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results were amazing and we can bail hay
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any time of the day or night we make
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plasma cutters a lot of these tables are
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bought and used to do work around the
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farm Simon breaks you cut out a metal
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instead of waiting for somebody to send
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it to you or waiting for a delivery date
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and something getting lost you just go
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to your table and burn it yourself
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what's very exciting about this truck is
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there are digesters that turn cow manure
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into fuel miles per gallon
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I really wish I did we have an
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autonomous orchard sprayer it goes out
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into orchards sprays the trees with
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fertilizers you got one guy that can be
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in a pickup with a laptop computer and
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he can monitor up to eight of these at a
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time is there a chance that the robots
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could sort of get together and like turn
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on us like should we have a terminator
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situation conservative Skynet no no we
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we have a lot of fail-safes in the
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software this is a shaker the way you
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kind of get down is you grab a treat by
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the branch or the trunk and you shake it
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and it shakes on all the produce and a
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sweeper comes in sweeps it up and you
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have your produce it's a 3d camera we
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suspend it from the roof of a dairy
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barns and that allows us to watch cows
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24 hours a day the cow was domesticated
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9,000 years ago will now be able to see
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things that even the early farmers could
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never see have you ever received any
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complaints from cows about you know lack
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of privacy we have not had any
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complaints from cows by lack of privacy
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actually I think of anything cows urdhva
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Liza the people are paying attention
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them for the first time technology does
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matter to the farmer big time because of
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the the precision the control that
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you've got out there and just the data
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that you you get back from these
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machines we're giving tools to the
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growers that'll help them move ahead
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into the future what it ultimately gives
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them is the opportunity to get a better
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application it also helps them to make
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decisions on their growing practices to
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be more cost effective that's gonna
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affect everybody's pocketbook from the
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grower all the way down to the guy
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buying the commodity in the store before
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farmers were really stressed about
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baling hay they had to get that right
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amount of natural do at night and they
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would have to stay up all night and go
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check the hay constantly but now with
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the steamer as soon as the hay is dried
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down they can go on bail the hay and it
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just makes their life so much better
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they can be at home with their family
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more it means not just having the
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advancement technology to make the stuff
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easier for operators and people actually
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own the machines but easier for anybody
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who wants to get started with the kind
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of stuff this is really getting that
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younger generation excited about hack
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again we're no longer telling the young
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kids to here grab a shovel and go you
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know shovel weeds or we're giving them a
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tablet and saying hey let's go run these
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machines and they get really jazzed
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about that the changes we're going to
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see in the next five to ten years in
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agriculture are enormous and if you're
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not excited as a young person coming
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into business like that then you know
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there is nothing I could do for you food
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is not growing or developed in the
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grocery store some people believe
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without agriculture what are we gonna do
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that's our food agriculture is the most
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important part of the community it's
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it's the seed that grows everything it
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is the community that's why I think it's
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important for people in all walks of
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life people in governments to really
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protect the agricultural industry
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because we produce the food for everyone
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in the world I was raised on a farm so I
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have just been part of a gag has been my
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life forever my dad was a wheat farmer
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plus we had livestock we had dairy
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calves we had hogs and the chickens were
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mine I had 200 chickens when I was 16
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years old and they laid so many eggs
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that they paid for my first two years of
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college I learned at a very young age to
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run equipment to cut the hay rake the
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hay bail the hay halt the hay
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was a great experience to have a lot of
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room to roam and to explore and and be a
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kid it was it was great my parents kind
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of forced me to be the one that picks
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the weeds on Saturday at Sunday and I
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hated it as a kid and lo ugly hold I'm
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teaching landscaping and horticulture
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upon retirement I go I'm going back to
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the family farm and took over the
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operations of that it was just a passion
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I had developed later on as an adult
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it's just personally satisfying to be
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able to know that I've raised the goat
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I've milked to the goat and then I've
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made the cheese to feed my friends and
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family I grew up in it I've been in
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agriculture my whole life and I've just
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always loved it
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just a great life to live and a very
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honest living been a good life no
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complaints at all I've passed away here
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four months ago and I'm about to
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lonesome its old guy you've ever seen
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we've been holding hands since we're 16
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but having this community here they keep
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me doing something all the time so that
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helps every year I've sing the national
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anthem fourth we're very very proud of
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this it's quite an accomplishment been
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going for over 50 years and I won't be
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here but I hope it goes out of 50 years
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theTUNDRA interviews exhibitors and attendees at the World Ag Expo 2020, doing a deep dive on everything the show has to offer, from the latest in high tech farming equipment to antique tractors from yesteryear.
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