Farmer Jon: US Senator from Montana spends weekends plowing fields

Even for a Montana grain farmer, the ripped and greasy clothes worn by Jon Tester http://tester.senate.gov/ on a typical weekend back home are a bit ragged. For a U.S. senator, they are downright grubby.

Tester is a bit of an anomaly in what has been dubbed the nation’s "most exclusive club," and it’s not likely he would have ever received an invitation to join on satorial considerations alone.

Montana voters sent him to the Senate in 2006, but he flies home almost every weekend to plow his fields, fix his farm machinery and tend to his relatively modest 1,800 acre farm in the rolling hills of wheat country north of Great Falls.

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