what is that kenny chesney song? she thinks my tractor's sexy? there is some truth to that.gricultural issues are, i would argue, sexy. if not sexy, increasingly critical and increasingly important. i am glad to be here, and it is metaphorically appropriate we are here today. it turns out it was february 21 of 1865, 148 years ago today, that the us patent office issued patent number 46,454. i will not give you a pop quiz. it was simply labeled john deere plow. but the implement sketched out on the page could just as easily have been labeled, as some historians have named it, one of the most important inventions in american history. they called it the plow that broke the plains, and it did. by replacing cast iron with smooth steel, john deere's innovation opened up huge new swaths of land for cultivation. it made it possible for towns like aberdeen, south dakota, my hometown, to exist. before it, killing an acre took a grown man a full 24 hours. after, it took as little as five. every pile of soil over turned up and did another assumption about what the land could produce. th

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what is that kenny chesney song? "she thinks my tractor is sexy"? not sexy, increasingly critical and increasingly important. i'm glad to be here. it is appropriate that we are here today. it turns out that it was february 21, 1865 -- i will not give you a pop quiz. it could've easily been labeled one of the most important inventions in history. they called it the plow that broke the plains, and it did. by replacing cast iron with smooth innovation, it opened up swaths of land for cultivation. it made it possible for my hometown to exist. hometown to exist.

what is that kenny chesney song? "she thinks my tractor is sexy"? there is some truth to that.agricultural issues are, if not sexy, increasingly important. i'm glad to be here. it is appropriate that we are here today. it turns out that it was february 21, 1865 -- 148 years ago today, that the u.s. patent office issued a patent. i will not give you a pop quiz. it was labeled john deere plow. the implement sketched out could have easily been labeled one of the most important inventions in history. they called it the plow that broke the plains, and it did. by replacing cast iron with smooth innovation, it opened up swaths of land for cultivation. it made it possible for my hometown to exist. beforehand, tilling an acre took a full 24 hours. afterward, as little as five. every toil ended another assumption of what the land could produce. it is not just the start of agricultural success, but of national success. this kind of game changing innovation has enabled us to leap ahead and increase harvest and feed the whole world. sometimes these innovations come from the most advanced sc