Leaders Farms has created a seven-acre corn maze shaped like the new Ford F-150 in Napoleon, Ohio.
DETROIT, MI - How's this for some free and very-seasonal publicity: Leaders Farms in Napoleon, Ohio has created a seven-acre corn maze shaped like the new Ford F-150.
Anyone flying in the vicinity of the farm will see the massive truck carved from maize.
"We are a multi-generation Ford-driving family," Kristin Leaders of Leaders Farms said in a release from Ford. "My husband Brad was reading a magazine last winter and saw the new F-150 design and loved it. We thought it would really stand out as the feature of this year's corn maze."
The Leaders used GPS to precisely cut the shape of the truck in their corn field. The farm has been crafting corn mazes for 18 years at the farm, which is also home to 13 goats, 40 cows and a barnyard dog named Scout.
The giant maze, which typically takes up to an hour to walk through, is expected to eventually produce about 1,120 bushels of corn. The corn will help feed cattle raised on the property.
The new-for-2015 F-150 first rolled off the assembly line in Dearborn nearly a year ago.
Sales of the F-Series trucks struggled a bit at first, as Ford sought to ramp up production after retooling its facilities for the aluminum-bodied truck, but those sales have since rebounded.
David Muller is the automotive and business reporter for MLive Media Group in Detroit. Email him at dmuller@mlive.com, follow him on Twitter or find him on Facebook.