I just finished reading the Cost of Doing Business article in the February 2024 issue of Farm Equipment, and I would like to share a persistent thought as it relates to that subject matter.
I have said the word never a lot in my life. Growing up, Grandpa would say “Never is a very long time,” and I would shrug it off. Back then, and now, when I say never, I mean it.
Last week, Leo Johnson (recently retired chairman of Johnson Tractor, Janesville, Wis.) and I took our mutual friend and Farm Equipment inaugural Hall of Fame class inductee Paul Wallem to lunch.
The New Category Development Team working with the American Petroleum Institute reports good progress on test procedures to produce new “C” and “F” category heavy-duty diesel engine oils
Oil marketer engine test labs are likely to get a lot noisier later this year as technicians there begin evaluating various new diesel engine oil formulations for a projected new category release in 2027.
As a young new farm equipment dealer in Northeast Iowa with many smaller farms, our dealership had a need for good used farm equipment. So we started to purchase lease return tractors from a couple of dealerships in Wisconsin.
A European tech firm has introduced laser-based technology offering crop monitoring images in five colors and the ability to operate night or day at ranges up to 300 meters.
Over the past 40 years agricultural scanning technology has developed rapidly from sprayers with only the capability to recognize brown bare soil from very green growing plant material to machines capable of guiding moving sprayers to target individual plants
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