Farm Tender

US Farmer/Contractor buys his 500th Header off John Deere

US Farmer and Contractor Chad Olsen and his Olsen Custom Farms harvesting team are no strangers to the John Deere combine.

For his Hendricks, Minnesota-based custom harvesting operation, these big green machines are the workhorses that enable crews to harvest 600,000 to 700,000 acres of crops each year for farm customers stretching from Texas to Watson, Sasketchewan, Canada.

The 500th machine is part of an order of 13 combines (Headers) and eight pieces of front-end equipment that Harvester is building for Olsen. By year's end, Olsen said he will purchase 34 new combines (Headers) from John Deere.