traveling the countryside in norton kansas im andrew mccrea thanks andrew. you can hear more of andrew's stories by visit american countryside dot com or download the farm journal tv app. when we come back, machinery pete has this week's welcome back to tractor tals folks! we've got a classic deere from southern indiana to share with you today. this '72 power shift from john deere was quite the workhorse in it's day. alan hoskins has some fond memories of a tractor just like this one from his youth and he hopes to keep this classic around for a long time. we have behind us a nighteen seventy two john deere forty twenty power shift. in the final production cycle of the seventy two forty twenties tractor was manufactured about halfway through the cycle and it was shipped to albany georgia on february third in nineteen seventy two i had been looking for particularly in nineteen head be a very very generous to those tractors when you look at what they were bringing and i found the tractor at polk auction company in new paris indiana it was the condition that you

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louis missouri i'm andrew mccrea. wow. what a story. andrew, thank you for that. if you want to hear more of rocky's courageous story, we actually posted his entire unedited interview online. just go to the farm journal tv app and click on american countryside. when we the butterburger is made of just three cuts of fresh midwest beef. nothing more, nothing less. so we got the sirloin, all prized cuts, all well-marbled for richness and flavor. this is where those three wonderful cuts of beef come together. you can just tell that blend is working in there. and we sear them, and that seals in the juices of the burger. it doesn't get any better than that. and that's the culver's butterburger. welcome to delicious! folks were heading to illinois this week for a classic 706 international. this tractor has worked on the family farm for years. owner mike meal has enjoyed having this one in his collection and says he plans to keep it working for years to come. nineteen sixty seven 706 international tractor with a german diesel engine and an m and w turbo charger added to i

not free> andrew mccrea has his story of both bravery and perserverance in american countryside. and in john's world...

andrew mccrea begins our harvest of thanks. america's farmers and ranchers dedicate their lives to feeding and clothing our country and millions of others across the globe. before the trip it was just an ordinary ship. sixty-six days later, she would go into the history books as on of the most famous vessels to cross the atlantic whit perry, director of maritime operations at plymouth plantation this was a ship that was available. it was a very common merchant ship that would have been available for hire. the passengers were considered cargo, and the sailors favorite kind of cargo because it was self-loading cargo. this was the u-haul of its day. for the sailors on the mayflower, this was a long run, but not uncommon. it was a different story for the pilgrims. for the passengers this would be like you and i going to the moon. they had no idea what to expect. incredibly courageous. this wasn't something that was done very day. worse than that, the tween deck of the ship. passengers were probably only allowed on the main deck in