Farm Equipment editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great farm machinery industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web:

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Proven in the most demanding of ag conditions, CLEANFIX reversible fans provide the most efficient diesel engine cooling and radiator cleaning available. The multi-patented reversing fan technology maintains machine cooling as needed and, when required, provides the strongest blowout of dust and debris -- without halting or slowing operations.

Hacker Jailbreaks John Deere Tractor & Installs Doom

An Australian hacker known as Sick Codes has managed to jailbreak — the process of exploiting the flaws of a locked-down electronic device to install software other than what the manufacturer has made available for that device — a John Deere tractor. And as is apparently the thing to do when you jailbreak something, he installed the first-person shooter video game Doom.

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Independent Dealer & OEM Team Up for Customers' Gain

As we put the finishing touches on the annual SHORTLINE EQUIPMENT edition, Yetter’s Andy Thompson and Pete Youngblut, owner of Youngblut Ag, describe how a shortline manufacturer and shortline dealer work together to get the job done. Youngblut says making a new sale is the byproduct, not the objective, of working together on systems and solutions that the customers most value.

50 Years Later … Oldest Operating Grain Cart

It’s been 50 years since Jon Kinzenbaw produced Kinze Manufacturing’s first 2-wheel grain carts. After building a prototype in 1971, Kinzenbaw manufactured the first production run of eight, 400-bushel grain carts and quickly sold them all. This 8-minute video explains the history of the unit along with interviews with farmers who are still using it to speed up their harvests today.

 

The Showroom Gets Lonely When the County Fair Rolls Around

When inventory is already in short order, it gets really hard to make the showroom shine when all the equipment gets sent to the county fair! Sometimes you've just got to do the best with what you've got!

We'll Troll the Rest of the Big10 ... Until We Can't

With college football season just weeks away now, we just can't stop watching last week's Best of the Web video featuring the first time a Husker stopped a Badger in at least a decade. A Nebraska manufacturer sent us this picture and caption following last week's Best of the Web.

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Farm Innovations Video of the Week: An Inside Look at Haven Steel’s Manufacturing Facilities

Take a virtual tour of the Haven Steel Kansas and Tennessee facilities. Watch as we form, mill, forge, and create the implements you need, with the quality you depend on and the expertise you trust.

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Proven in the most demanding of ag conditions, CLEANFIX reversible fans provide the most efficient diesel engine cooling and radiator cleaning available. The multi-patented reversing fan technology maintains machine cooling as needed and, when required, provides the strongest blowout of dust and debris -- without halting or slowing operations.

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