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It’s all about ag for Smith
Tammara Green/Post-Register
Max Smith
Washington Tractor recently hired Max Smith as their sales manager for John Deere at their Quincy store.
Smith prefers the open roads and desert scenery of the Quincy Valley, which is much like his boyhood home of Tucumcari, N. M.
His family settled there in the deep Southwest over 100 years ago. All he has known his entire life is farming and farm equipment. Smith grew up on a working farm with his four brothers.
They had milk cows and grew cotton, milo and alfalfa. They also grew a large crop of broom corn. Smith left New Mexico to go to college in Oklahoma at Panhandle State. He finished his studies at BYU in Provo, Utah.
Smith has worked for John Deere for 32 years. He spent 20 years working in the Willamette Valley of Oregon as a salesman until he came to manage a store in Lynden, two hours north of Seattle.
“It was a nice agricultural community, but there was too much traffic,” said Smith.
He now has the unique opportunity to work under the subsidiary of Washington Tractors, which is a merging of Liberty Farm & Lawn, Barnette Implement in Chehalis, and North Washington Implement in Lynden. The combination of several suppliers for parts and sales will offer diversity at the Quincy store.
Smith enjoys the Quincy area and the people here. He and his wife plan to eventually pack up their things and move to the area.
“I like the rural nature of Quincy. When you turn on the radio, it’s all about agriculture,” said Smith.
Desarae commented, on June 25, 2011 at 9:47 p.m.:
Congrats on the new position Max!
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