In one of the most bizarre spectacles in agriculture history, nicotine-addicted Judas goats once led sheep to slaughter down livestock’s version of the green mile.

What compelled a farmer to drive 1,800 miles in dead winter atop an open-cab tractor and rage against the political machine? Family, country and a desperate love of agriculture.

A steaming heap of manure large enough to fill a sporting arena once triggered an Iowa war between stockyards and city fathers.

Here's the story of how the Frito man, the epitome of an American entrepreneur, jammed multiple agriculture lifetimes into nine decades, with a litany of business successes ranging from seed mills to fertilizer to food corn to grain bin construction.