Articles by Dave Kanicki

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Shortline Legends Hall of Fame

Cyril & Louis Keller

Keller Mfg. & Welding, Rothsay, Minn.
The tough farming conditions in the Red River Valley of western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota has spawned many of the most significant advancements in farm machinery over the past century.
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Inaugural Farm Equipment Hall of Fame Class of 2024: Earl Livingston, Livingston Machinery (Parallel Ag)

Livingston Machinery (Parallel Ag) Chickasha, Oklahoma Primary Lines: AGCO, Claas, Apache, Kinze, Duolift, H&S Equipment, Lemken, RhinoAg, RoGator, Vermeer Locations: 13
Earl Livingston became known as “Big Baler Man” because of his pioneering work in introducing big hay balers to Southwestern U.S. farmers. This, along with his commitment to around-the-clock servicing of those 24 hour a day farmers, earned him that title and the loyalty of farmers across 15 states.
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Kanicki Shares Formula, Results for Farm Equipment

Following is an excerpt from Executive Editor Dave Kanicki’s farewell blog in 2020
When I joined Lessiter Media in 2005 as an editor for Farm Equipment and Ag Equipment Intelligence (then called Ag Industry Watch), I believed a big part of my job was to be an advocate for farm equipment dealers.
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Old Equipment & New Technology

It wasn’t that long ago when we were talking about U.S. farm equipment being younger than it had been in decades. With the ag boom of 2010-14, farm tractors were literally flying off the shelves. North American sales of high horsepower equipment peaked at a little over 50,000 units in 2013.
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Is Farmers’ Traditional Loyalty to Ag Equipment Colors Fading?

The loyalty that farmers hold for their preferred brand of ag equipment took a sharp turn downward in 2020. Is this a reflection of how they feel today about the equipment itself or are their changing attitudes based on the general malaise in the ag industry?
Since the editors of Farm Equipment and Ag Equipment Intelligence launched the first brand loyalty study of farm machinery in late 2010 and followed it up with subsequent studies in 2014 and 2017, the allegiance and positive perception that farmers held for “their brand” continually grew.
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