My farming background only goes back one generation - my dad. He grew up in town, his dad was a dentist, but dad worked as a hired man for farmers during ww 2 because of a medical deferment from the service.
His dad bought a farm as an investment and asked my dad if he wanted to give farming a try. He said yes,but he had no brand loyalty when it came to farm equipment. As a hired man he had driven every brand including horses, and the only thing he did not like was the horses.
One of the farmers he worked for became a good friend and offered to lend dad some machinery to get him going. This friend was a diehard Deere fan and he talked dad into going green.
For some unknown reason the local Deere dealer here in NW Iowa had a new 47 ANH, probably because of a tractor shortage after the war so dad bought that ANH and thus began the history of the Deere equipment on this farm I now live on. Dad had seriously contemplated buying an Allis since there was an Allis dealer in town too, but his friend convinced him otherwise. There was an IH and Oliver dealer in town too but I don't know why he didn't consider those colors. He's always been a very conservative person and my guess is the price tag on the ANH was less than anyone else's because no one in this area had a use for a high clearance tractor.
In my younger days I thought Deere was the one-and-only brand because the whole neighborhood was green, but that attitude went out the window long ago though I still have a soft spot for the color green. Jim
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