ONLY ONE BRAND OF COMPACT EQUIPMENT IS SUITABLE FOR TWO NORTH DAKOTA ROW CROP AND COW-CALF OPERATORS, AND THAT BRAND IS BOBCAT. NOW ON THEIR THIRD BOBCAT LOADER, BROTHERS MICHAEL AND PATRICK COX ARE LOYAL TO THE SKID-STEER LOADER PIONEER.
There’s only one brand of compact loader that suits farmers and brothers Michael and Patrick Cox — Bobcat. Michael and Patrick operate Cox Farms, a family farm near Devils Lake, N.D., where they have about 2,500 tillable acres for corn and soybeans, as well as a cow-calf operation with 700 acres of pasture.
Michael and Patrick took over the family farm when their father, Barry, passed away in 2011. Together, the brothers and their mother, Judy, are carrying on the family farm and its traditions, with some help from a Bobcat®
T750 compact track loader and
attachments. The M-Series T750 is the third Bobcat compact loader they’ve purchased from Bobcat of Devils Lake, and for Michael, it’s the only brand that matters.
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“My feeling is that Bobcat was the fi rst skid-steer loader and has always been the best,” he says. “We have a very good relationship with the local dealer. We purchased our fi rst Bobcat loader about fi ve years ago, an 873, and then added an S650. Now we’re on our third Bobcat loader — a T750.
“We decided that rather than use a Bobcat skid-steer loader with over-the-tire steel tracks, we would buy a Bobcat compact track loader. It’s nice to have the rubber-track undercarriage in the spring when it’s wet, for extra traction and fl otation, and the rubber tracks enable us to go into buildings and drive on concrete.”