On a Tuesday morning in April 1978, a gleaming red semi-truck pulled onto County Road 14 in Marshall County, Iowa, hauling two brand new John Deere tractors that cost more than most people in the county would earn in a decade. The driver had delivery instructions to the Patterson farm, a 640 acre operation that had been in the same family since 1889.
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