Locally invented, grasshopper plow changed plains ag

Nestled alongside the Plainsman Museum’s full-size sod house is a rather unassuming and somewhat complicated looking piece of pioneer machinery.

Little to most know that this “grasshopper plow” was invented right here in Hamilton County by a gentleman named George L. Levee and ultimately revolutionized farming in the Great Plains.

“Most of our early pioneers were men of resource and inventive genius…