Leave it to farmers and the ag community to come up with a good way to spend US$1.3 billion (minus taxes of course, but for Canadians, even more with the exchange rate).
With the winning numbers going unclaimed on Sunday, the jackpot in the U.S. PowerBall will be the first to exceed the $1 billion mark, leading farmers on Twitter to share their dreams about how they’d invest that amount of cash. Here are some of the highlights:
They say the majority of lottery winners go broke within 5 yrs… Which means I’d probably buy more cows #AgPowerBallDreams
— Kresten Jorgenson (@RagenKajen) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerballDreams bury it all in cream cans and be that eccentric rural legend
— Rob Stone (@rgstone1) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerBallDreams Free Belarus tractors for everyone!!
— Viren D’souza™ (@Milkabot) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerBallDreams I’d sponsor profit per acre contests instead of yield contests.
— Karen Corrigan (@weedgirl24) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerBallDreams Optimus Prime will be hauling my corn from now on.
— ThePOedFarmer (@lawleria) January 10, 2016
I’d be the unwavering arm in the air at all land sales forever. #AgPowerBallDreams
— Tregg Cronin (@5thWave_tcronin) January 10, 2016
Buy Brazilian presidency. Encourage them to plant more wildflowers. #AgPowerBallDreams
— ThePOedFarmer (@lawleria) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerballDreams I’d buy 2 of these and give one away on Twitter ? @Versatileag1 #TrochuMotors pic.twitter.com/v2pO3A1max
— John Kowalchuk (@KowalchukFarms) January 10, 2016
Build an Olympic size swimming pool, fill it with flat fans, and have baths like Uncle Scrooge. #AgPowerBallDreams
— Tom Wolf (@nozzle_guy) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerBallDreams Pay off land debts – and buy 5 cent candies with what’s left.
— adrienne ivey (@adrienneivey) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerBallDreams I’d give loans to the world’s poorest farmers to buy land, seed, tools & grain storage.
— Jen Christie (@SavvyFarmgirl) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerBallDreams ………….buy 5000 units of seed just to get a free hat
— Andy Pasztor (@apasztor82) January 10, 2016
Buy every elevator in the area so I can go to the front of the line every time I pull in at harvest time. #AgPowerballDreams
— Randy Uhrmacher (@Cornfrmr) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerBallDreams buy the 4 western provinces from the government, save them from this nightmare of Liberal/Ndp lack of leadership
— Cory Archibald (@smarchibald) January 11, 2016
#AgPowerBallDreams Will improve farm in technology. Will never leave our dream or passion. #farmingismylife
— Jenny Burgess (@BurgessHillFarm) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerBallDreams Pay Morgan Freeman to narrate a documentary about real farming w/all the cool Ag Twitter peeps
— Devil’s Agvocate (@MGigger) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerBallDreams buy the riders and move them to fort vermillion
— Terry (@xtreme9530) January 10, 2016
#AgPowerBallDreams buy more cows, of course!
— Purdue Dairy Club (@PurdueDairyClub) January 10, 2016
The #AgPowerBallDreams hashtag also spawned this hashtag: #AgWorkForAPaycheckReality, although it doesn’t seem to have gone viral, for some reason.
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