Last week we traveled to Moultre, Georgia home of the Sunbelt Expo...a month ahead of the show... to film a producer and the dealership Lasseter Equipment. It's all for a client of ours as we trek across the United States talking to farmers about their work and their equipment.
This trip found us at the Davis Farm in Doerun, a tiny community north of Moultre. (You can click on the images to enlarge.) Here Bart Davis, his wife Paula and three children farm over 4,000 acres of cattle, cotton, peanuts, hay and some corn. Bart has an interesting story: Grandson of a sharecropper, Bart's parents died six months apart when he was eighteen. His inheritance was an old house and a several hundred acres of farm ground. He married his high school sweetheart, Bart was twenty Paula was seventeen, and went to work...hard.
We were there on the day his brand new John Deere 7760 cotton picker was delivered. Price tag: $580,000. Here's a quick video of our new friend and a little about what he does...
A couple of other pieces of information: Bart tells us he doesn't take a vacation, "Why go away from what I love to do?" and he's concerned about things like the future generation: "We can't find competent people to work. They won't listen, stay on the job...or sometimes even show up." He knows about not paying attention too...recently an employee hit a tree with a sprayer arm, cost to repair: $25,000.
It was a great visit and thank you Bart for your friendship and your hard work.
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