Air Tractor, with 270 employees, is the largest employer in rural Olney -- population 3,000. They manufacture agricultural and forestry firefighting aircraft.
For more than 15 years, they have been increasing their exports with the assistance of
Export-Import Bank of the United States. But this overseas business and these new jobs could disappear if Congress fails to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank before it expires at the end of May, ending the financing that makes these exports possible.
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Illustration credit:
Air Tractor
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/20/3824000/ickert-growing-small-business.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/20/3824000/ickert-growing-small-business.html#storylink=cpy
