Weary to the bone on a dreary February afternoon at 4:55 p.m., a dejected Max Miller stared from the driver’s seat of a white 1950s sedan at another front door of another grain elevator beside another nameless backroad in another farming county in another Heartland state 250 miles from his Illinois home. Five minutes from closing time, or five minutes to flip a farmer’s future? 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.
Clogged Combines: The Damage Weeds Can Do to Machinery
Whether you call it slugged, plugged or wadded-up, a combine jammed with weeds or damp crop is enough to make a preacher cuss. Here are tips to minimize your frustration and downtime.
