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:
- Customers Thirsty to Do Business with You
- Addressing Labor Shortage with Inhouse Solution
- Independent Innovation: The College Kid & Wunderkind Welders
- Code Breaking in the Dealership
- Messicks Breaks Down Current Inventory & Interest Rate Issues
- Product of the Week: Verge Ag Introduces Launch Pad
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Customers Thirsty to Do Business with You
Nebraska’s Zipline Brewing has partnered with AKRS Equipment Solutions, a John Deere dealer with more than two dozen locations, to produce AKRS Ale. “Just as our customers associate the AKRS name with quality in the field, we want them to look for AKRS Ale when it’s time to wind down,” says Kevin Clark, AKRS CEO, noting the brew is made with Nebraska-grown corn.
Addressing Labor Shortage with Inhouse Solution
Like most small, rural employers, Illinois equipment manufacturer HCC finds it challenging to attract workers with the skills needed to maintain demand. In this 2-minute video, HCC explains the challenge, and lays out its creative solution to a welder shortage, citing tactics, partners and processes.
Independent Innovation: The College Kid & Wunderkind Welders
As our special edition on shortline and independent machinery makes its way into dealers’ mailboxes in the coming days, here is a fascinating article on a great success story. This machine enabled an independent company to build its brand and “was created in a small garage by a college student genius and 2 brilliant metal fabricators.”
In a secret garage in Fargo, young engineer Paul Nystuen worked with veteran builders Jerry Joubert and Al Lieberg to design and assemble a four-wheel-drive tractor for International Harvester. Photo courtesty of Paul Nystuen Collection
Code Breaking in the Dealership
In this week’s popular Rural Lifestyle Dealer blog, Tim Brannon writes of the “Code Talkers” in everyday dealer happenings. For instance, if a tech comes in and claims that the unit he is working on is a piece of “excrement,” someone should pick up on the code that he is struggling with this job and needs help. Always entertaining, Brannon advises dealers to be "code breakers" instead of "code talkers."
Messicks Breaks Down Current Inventory & Interest Rate Issues
In this 15 minute video, Neil Messick breaks down how equipment availability looks wildly different from one segment to another and finance rates have crept up. This conversation covers what it's like to purchase equipment right now.
Product of the Week: Verge Ag Introduces Launch Pad
Verge has introduced Launch Pad — the world’s first interactive software tool to help farmers of all sizes and equipment colors optimize their in-the-field path planning. The new technology creates a set of path plans — custom to each farm — that eliminates unnecessary travel and is easily integrated into modern day GPS systems, with no extra hardware needed.
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Best of the Web This Week is brought to you by CLEANFIX.
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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