Deere Made-in-America Tractors Plow Brazil Soil as Farms Upgrade
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On a scorching afternoon in the savanna of eastern Brazil, Wilson Horita is 8 feet above the ground, bouncing on the driver’s seat of the new green-and-yellow tractor parked on his family’s farm.
"It’s totally pneumatic," he tells a visitor. Horita doesn’t drive tractors, he buys them. "Let’s talk about comfort," he says, speaking in Portuguese as another Brazilian, perched on the ladder to the cab, translates.