A small-town American farmboy gave the fight against food insecurity real traction.
His name was John Froelich.
And he helped feed the world in ways that Bob Geldof, Boy George and a galaxy of other celebrities connected to the holiday hit “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” — including global community efforts to feed the world much, much later in the 1980s — could only imagine.
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All it took was American ingenuity, elbow grease — and fossil fuels.
Froelich (pronounced fray-LICK), son of German immigrants, invented the gas-powered tractor.
“He was quite an amazing man,” Denise Schutte, executive director of the Froelich Foundation & Museum in Iowa, told Fox News Digital.
“He had a very creative and inventive sort of mind. He just wanted to make life better for everybody.”
His gasoline traction engine, as it was first known, ignited stunning improvements in agricultural productivity.
“He had …