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Disclaimer: This video is a storytelling-based narrative inspired by real farm life and family conflict. Some details have been adapted for narrative clarity and emotional impact, and the story is not intended as financial or historical instruction.
Spring 1985.

The radio announced export restrictions.
Within weeks, wheat prices dropped over 60 cents a bushel.

Most farmers planted wall-to-wall wheat — just like every year.

She didn’t.

Behind the shed sat a 1963 grain drill. Slower. Manual. Outdated. But flexible. It could switch crops in under an hour.

While others doubled down on wheat, she split her acreage — sorghum, oats, sunflowers.

Exports froze.
Prices stayed low.
Elevators limited intake.

Monocrop farms took the full hit.

Her margins shrank — but never collapsed.

This isn’t a story about old equipment.

It’s about diversification.
About flexibility.
About why the slowest drill in the county protected the farm when the market changed overnight.

Watch until the end to see what efficiency can’t always save.
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