Yep you'll see him around town wearing blue jeans and a tee shirt.
Started out in his little weld shop in the late 60's and early 70 he built a plow that you could change the width of the bottoms on the go. Sold the idea to DMI and grew from there. He also refitted the first JD tractor with the Detroit engine in that little shop in Ladora
Got into folding planter frames in the early 80's and bought the row units from JD. It got to the point he was selling as many row units as JD and they cut him off. So it built is own units copying JD.
JD sued. John won against JD useing the defense that JD was faking a shortage of row units.
He came up with the idea of the first large grain carts to keep his guys in the factory busy when they got done building planters.
Everyone else started building grain carts and he never sued them.
You talk to him on the street and he'll talk to you.
He's made a few locals mad by buying farms in the area. But as he says "that's part of business"
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