National Tractor Pullers Association Benefiting from Biodiesel

by Luke Geiver (Biodiesel Magazine) In the past 20 years, the National Tractor Pulling Association has never seen as much excitement over a tractor pulling class as it did during the 2010 inaugural season for the Light Pro Stock class. Greg Randall, general manager for the NTPA, told Biodiesel Magazine that part of the reason for the excitement is based on the competiveness of the class, which allows more manufacturers a chance to provide their products to the race teams—but also because the class is powered by biodiesel.
The use of biodiesel “is something that can tie in well with someone sitting in the crowd that farms for a living and what they are seeing out there on the track,” Randall said. The NTPA’s use of biodiesel first started during a 2007 partnership with the United Soybean Board and has grown ever since, according the Randall.
...In the beginning, he said, the use of biodiesel was more of a tool to get farmers aware of the product and to support the industry that they were living in. “Now it’s kind of grown from that to showing the application of the fuel and translating the power and performance from the fuel onto the track.” READ MORE