Jess Settles – Winfield, IA Farmer and College Basketball Legend

Machinery Pete Podcast

With March Madness coming to a head with the NCAA Final Four this week, Machinery Pete talks with Jess Settles – farmer from Winfield, IA and Iowa Hawkeye basketball legend, also TV college basketball analyst on ESPN, Big Ten Network and Fox Sports. Settles talks about growing up on the farm in Winfield, IA, his family’s deep farming roots, his basketball journey that carried him to the University of Iowa and star status in the mid 1990’s. After his playing days ended, Settles transitioned to TV work. Farming and basketball stories and memories flow in this Pete and Jess conversation.

• [:35] - Machinery Pete’s intro, equipment market update
• [5:33] - Interview with Jess Settles begins
• [8:10] - Jess’s early Iowa days, growing up on the farm
• [16:26] - Graduation from high school, college basketball career
• [25:40] - Battling injuries
• [32:02] - Post career days; coaching and TV
• [40:18] - Modern basketball
• [50:13] - New strategies in farming and basketball
• [1:01:30] - Final words from Machinery Pete

Machinery Pete was founded in 1989 and has grown from its humble beginnings to a full-fledged marketplace for farming equipment. Greg Peterson, founder and host, has also released Machinery Pete content across platforms including YouTube with his long-running Machinery Pete TV show.

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