Updates: 47-hour 4440, Kastens, environment footprints

4440 sells for US$58,000

Jeff Groeneveld of Woodruff Sweitzer in Calgary emailed asking what the 1982 John Deere 4440 with 47 hours sold for. I had linked to the original Successful Farming article back in my February 26 blog. Turns out it sold at auction to a collector from Iowa for US$58,000. You can see footage of the auctioneer trying hard to squeeze another $1,000 out of the bidders. Click on the video at the right called "Bidding action." The video right after that one is with the guy who make the purchase on behalf of the collector.

Kastens got $1.5 million in subsidies

A Saskatchewan reader forwarded a link to a farm subsidy database that shows how much each U.S. farm is getting from government programs. Terry Kastens, the ag economist from Kansas, is also a big farmer. I featured some of Kastens' thoughts in my March 23 column on page 2. I also had a blog about him on March 3. The reader directed me to Kastens' three farm businesses. If you click on the business name, you can see how much each has received since 1997. Add up those three numbers and you get over $1.5 million.

Another site to check your "footprint"

In response to my blog entry from March 26, Murray Puffalt from Saskatchewan emailed to tell us about another environmental footprint calculator at http://co2x.com/ Click on "Calculate my footprint" under the photo of the plant in the middle of the page.