If given the opportunity to oversee a facility that is at the forefront of testing the latest cutting-edge tractor technology and collecting data revered by major agricultural manufacturers throughout the world, would you take the job?
That was the dilemma Roger Hoy found himself in 20 years ago.
At the time, the Georgia native had already landed his dream job as an agricultural engineer for John Deere in Waterloo, Iowa. But an annual meeting held at the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) shifted the gears in his life forever.
Hoy described how he was offered the position of tractor test lab director on-the-spot after that meeting. He recaps the story best in his own words during an interview with Midwest Messenger:…