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91-Year-Old Farmer Buys New Combine
Orval Trimble started farming in 1919. Last winter, the 91-year-old farmer bought a brand new Massey Ferguson 8570 rotary combine, trading off a three-year-old 8570 for it.
Trimble still does most of the work on his 440 acres himself along with the help of his wife of 25 years, Mae, the "other half of the team."
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91-Year-Old Farmer Buys New Combine COMBINES Miscellaneous 20-5-5 Orval Trimble started farming in 1919. Last winter, the 91-year-old farmer bought a brand new Massey Ferguson 8570 rotary combine, trading off a three-year-old 8570 for it.
Trimble still does most of the work on his 440 acres himself along with the help of his wife of 25 years, Mae, the "other half of the team." Trimble farmed with horses until 1936 when he bought his first tractor - a new Farmall F20 with a plow - for $920. "You can hardly buy a tractor tire for that anymore," he observes.
One big change he's seen in farming is increased use of agricultural chemicals. "It's probably not a good change, but they are necessary for farming more and more acres," he notes.
Trimble thinks about the future, not the past. Besides his new combine, he recently bought additional farmland.
If that sounds like plans for retirement are definitely not in the offing, that's because they aren't.
"I should probably think about it, but I don't know any-thing else," says Trimble.
"I'll believe it when I see it," agrees Mae, 84.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Orval Trimble, 864 North Co. Rd. 2360 East, Newman, Ill. 61942 (ph 217 837-2343).
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