Understanding the consumer through his or her own eyes, our end users of the products – the consumers of food of course – and their take on what happens out in the countryside without knowledge of production. You’ll generally find Kyle Jackson, dressed in his famous bib overalls standing at the end of the 300-foot track at many tractor pulls across Eastern Iowa, Western Wisconsin, and Illinois throughout the summer. He says he enjoys telling the story of agriculture and tractor pulling.
“I always say I was five years too young to be a farmer, just by the time my Grandpa got out of it I was a little too young but from what I’m looking, I know when I start going to work I’m going to start seeing equipment in the next couple of weeks,” Jackson said. “It looks like around my part of the world it was really close to being bad times, but it looks like we got just enough rain to keep it going.”
It’s certainly been amazing to see on four to five inches of rainfall in a lot of areas how green the crops have continued to remain.
“I notice, when we start getting West of Cedar Rapids you can just tell they didn’t get the rain that we got,” Jackson said. “Some of those rainstorms were so patchy- you go 20 miles and it looks great and another 20 miles it looks terrible so it’s just a real bummer of a deal. There’s nothing we can do about it; I mean the weather is the weather.”
Clinton, Iowa is where Kyle calls home, and you can find his pulling videos, professionally done, at Bibsters Repair Shop on YouTube.
