Vendors go all out to get farmers to look at their exhibits

DECATUR – Vendors use all kinds of gimmicks to lure farmers who love power to their exhibits at the Farm Progress Show.

Gimmicks like the 1981 DeLorean parked at the Liberty Renewable Fuels display. And the 1968 Aston-Martin that's soon going to be racing around the world. And at the same display, a souped-up Chevy truck with a Corvette engine that attracts the young crowd, said David Skjaerlund, a Liberty representative who came to talk to potential investors in the Michigan plant now under construction.

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