This toddler started in the sandbox pushing toy tractors around in my first “farming” enterprise. The toy tractors would later turn into real ones and all through school days the library had a well-worn path to the magazine section.
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I was the founder of Basic Software Systems when it started in January of 1979. Since then, many changes have been made. The most drastic way that running our business has changed is in the technology that has taken place.
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This year marks 55 years of Farm Equipment magazine and 20 years of ownership by our family-run company, Lessiter Media. Below is my first column (“A New-Era Contract”), from the August/September 2004 edition, written weeks after acquiring the magazine.
In regard to the changes over the past 55 years, the brand and manufacturer consolidation has been the most impactful. This timeline takes us back to and through the consolidation decades.
The single driving force of equipment changes and farming practices is the reduction of farmhands to perform the necessary functions from site prep, planting, harvest and the raw material transportation to buyers.
From a dealer perspective, the change in scale has been the biggest change. When my dad ran our business, we were just three stores – all within 50 miles.
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