Max Armstrong
@maxarmstrong
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Retired Chicago radio-television ag guy. Lifetime Farmall guy.
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Joined February 2009
FIRE THREAT persists. Extinguishers and chisel plows on standby again today. IN farmer I know put out a fire yesterday…this friend in NW Ohio wasn’t as lucky.
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Punkins and the @NFL. Some pumpkin farms, apple orchards, agri-tourism farms hate to see nearby teams do well in October. It can sap the Sunday crowd, as growers have shared with me.
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No drought improvement.
US Drought Monitor 10-16-25 For the 50 states and Puerto Rico, the US Drought Monitor shows 38.22% in moderate drought or worse, compared to 37.74% last week. #droughtmonitor #drought #drought2025
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Dad thought a tractor muffler rain cap was an extraordinary expense as long as my brother and I could jump high enough to get the tin can on and off.
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Looks like the kid had been mowing before putting on his uniform. (Check out the can on the Super H muffler.)
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Illinois grows enough pumpkins for 8 billion pumpkin-spice lattes https://t.co/DTFeEHQZkq Ones on top go in your belly. Those below go on the porch. latte vs lantern
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2 baseball seasons where she lives, and for Gpa it all comes back: Hot, humid hay baling-cultivating-melon picking days, then heading to town for steamy, fun nights under the lights.
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Oh, and I left out the memorable wait staff…Gaslight Club girls? Maybe.
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Some veteran journalists might remember the annual Chicago Board of Trade press dinner…a superb meal on a summer night after trading, in the pits, back when there was only daytime trade…complete with brandy and cigars.
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Were you ever there, on the floor of #CBOT as traders stood in the pits? “…hundreds of men shoulder to shoulder, shoving cards at clerks… there was literally steam rising off the crowd.” as described by CBOT trader @JohnLothian. (Where I met Orion Samuelson…my broadcast
95 years ago. @CMEGroup #CBOT trading floor was under construction. At 605 ft., it was Chicago’s tallest building until 1965, now buried in the skyline. In 1929 (just before Depression) US corn acres=102,000,000. Yield =23. Price = $1.16.
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@maxarmstrong One rule of thumb as promoted by a tire expert; never use steering tires more than five years. Your life and lives of others hang in the balance.
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Trucker sustained injuries when a front tire blew Friday morning. Truck and its load of corn went through a guardrail near Greencastle, Indiana.
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Another view from the Pfister seed harvest, by way of Popular Science Magazine.
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Everything in one place. Built from scratch. More to come — with your input and support. Thanks
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Lester Pfister’s monster 80 years ago at El Paso, Illinois. He had four built to harvest seed corn in 1945. Oliver pickers
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Old school rural radio. Our long time buddy, farm broadcaster Mike Perrine. He was on the air at Pittsfield, IL, one of his radio jobs from TX to WI. This was WBBA in 1959.
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Checking the signs on the John Deere wagon. One says “See The New McCormick Deering Farmalls” and another identifies the corn husking “State Champion. DICK POST.” Yep, that’s what it says.
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