Performance Stories Archive

Jim Deibert

It’s a short video from 1989 that belongs in a museum. Custom cutter Jim Deibert is sitting in the middle of a wheatfield, halfway out...

Fall 2019 Issue - Issue 27

Don Boles

“One of the kids that rents my land calls me the geekiest over 60 guy he knows,” says Alberta farmer Don Boles who &lsquo...

Fall 2019 Issue - Issue 27

Tom Dugan

The last time we checked in with Tom Dugan of T&K Red River Dairy [Big Cheese, Performance Magazine, Spring 2012], the large Arizona dairy was...

Fall 2019 Issue - Issue 27

Ron Hanmer

The drought of 1988 reaped heartbreak across the Canadian Prairies. In many places, yields were cut in half, and some farmers were left with nothing to...

Fall 2019 Issue - Issue 27

Bruce Nelson

Future ag historians seeking to chronicle the FlexDraper revolution can be forgiven if they begin with the launch of MacDon’s 974 FlexDraper in 2003. But...

Fall 2019 Issue - Issue 27

Dustin & Tyler Burns

It’s the summer of 2012, and Kandahar, Saskatchewan farmer Dustin Burns is in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He, along with a handful of other producers,...

Fall 2019 Issue - Issue 27

Tracy & Jim Zeorian

The last time we visited with custom combiners Tracy and Jim Zeorian, they were new additions to the MacDon family, having purchased their first MacDon...

Fall 2019 Issue - Issue 27