Derek Burk of Brookville, Ind., was selected as the grand prize winner from more than 121,000 entries in the John Deere Green Fever Sweepstakes. Burk had the choice of a new Ford F-250 Lariat 4×4 pickup and new John Deere 1026R Sub-Compact Utility Tractor with loader or $50,000 (USD) cash. He took the $50,000 cash.

Burk farms corn, soybeans and hay and raises cattle with his grandfather in southeast Indiana and also works as a mechanic for a general contractor. He said he plans to invest some of the money and use the rest to buy a home or additional farmland. His John Deere dealer is Koenig Equipment, Inc., in Oxford, Ohio.

The Green Fever Sweepstakes, which ended Feb. 28, 2011, drew entries from more than 20,000 property owners, farmers/ranchers and commercial landscape contractors in the United States and Canada.