At that point, Mara McBride, whose father's hands had known each fence post and who had been named for a storm her grandmother swore would pass, closed the trailer's door and walked the rows without a tablet. She had been skeptical of technology on principle and desperate on account. The farm's ledger was drying up; loans that had once been patient now hummed with impatience. But she also listened to fields the old way: kneeling, smelling an acre, tasting dirt the way some tasted wine. She wore soil in the creases of her palms like a badge.
Note: These figures are based on internal testing with a 2,000 lb implement load. Your mileage may vary based on tire pressure and soil compaction.
The "MPG" in the title isn't just marketing fluff—MBS seems to have really focused on efficiency and power delivery with this one. The throttle response is crisp, arguably the crispest I’ve felt in this class. It doesn't have that "bog" feeling when you transition from idle to full throttle, which was a minor gripe I had with the 012 series.
