Seeing America from a Farmall

Traveling from Canada to Mexico on a 1940 Farmall M tractor Mark Koehn stopped briefly in Columbus. This marks the halfway point in his 2,000 mile trip.
Traveling from Canada to Mexico on a 1940 Farmall M tractor Mark Koehn stopped briefly in Columbus. This marks the halfway point in his 2,000 mile trip.

“I’m seeing the country through the windshield of a my 1940 Farmall Model M tractor,” said Mark Koehn as he stopped briefly in Columbus on Friday.

What sounds like the lyrics of a country song is in fact the description of Koehn’s journey across mid-America.

A recently retired Upsala, Minnesota farmer Koehn is driving down to the Gulf of Mexico to raise funds for Future Farmers of America alumni and…