Joe Newton Quotations

With today's thin margins, aerial chemical applicators are cost prohibitive for me at $5 to 6 an acre.

The process takes less than an hour, and I'd check it anyway. There's no overlapped or missed rows, no soil compaction, and the soil incorporation gets done along with the irrigation.

I thought it was sprained at first, ... Then I tried to get up and walk on it, and I felt sick to my stomach. I knew something was wrong.

A farmer with a $50,000 ground sprayer not only has to pull it across his fields but also irrigate to incorporate the fertilizer in the soil. Farmers without irrigation can pay even more for a sophisticated sprayer -- up to $150,000.

They usually finish one to four seconds apart. They are the best two in the state this year.

It was a stupid, fluke injury. I wasn't doing anything to help the team and I was really frustrated when it happened.

It is very serious and will require some fairly harsh measures to rectify the problem.

I wanted the flexibility to treat my crops as needed without waiting on someone else.

After the surgery, I went home the same night (a Tuesday), ... I hung out at my house for the rest of the week until Sunday. Getting through that first week was the hardest part. It was good to be at home. My parents helped out a lot.

I'm just trying to stay positive and look at what I can do for the future, ... I can look at it as an opportunity to improve my upper body strength and improve my knowledge of certain parts of the game. It's going to be pretty hard for me. I have a lot of fun being out there and playing with the guys. It's a really fun team to be with. I'm going to miss it for sure. But I'll be cheering for them.

I miss being active, that's for sure, ... The main thing is to not rush it until I'm 100 percent because the worst thing you can do is come back and re-injure it. So I'm going to make sure it's 100 percent healed before I get back and play. And however long it will take is how long it will take.

I just ran a little out and up and Sean put it a little behind me, adjusted a little and made the catch. It felt good because it's good to remind myself that I can still play.

You will be cutting to the bone. You will be spending money only on those things you need to spend money on.