Air Tractor: How an engineer from the Rio Grande Valley turned a small North Texas town into a hotbed of aviation innovation.

Leland Snow, the founder of one of Decision Resources’ favorite customers, Air Tractor, was profiled in the this month’s edition of Texas Monthly. Starting with $1,200 borrowed against his mother’s car in the early 1950’s – Snow became the “Thomas Edison of agricultural aviation,” and built a company that now employs 250 people in the same North Texas town of Olney where it all started.

Read more about the amazing journey of the company, committed to the town in which it was built, that now owns 85 to 90 percent of the agricultural aviation market.

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