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:

• A Rare On-The-Field Win for Cornhuskers
• Soil Health Testing with Your Fruit of the Looms
• Flashback to Caterpillar’s 25th Anniversary in the Quad Cities
• Are You Ready to Promote, Demo & Sell Autonomy?
• How it Started - How it’s Going: Service Trucks Then & Now
• Product of the Week: Simol Intorduces New Range of ASABE/ISO 12140 Complaint Jacks

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A Rare On-The-Field Win for Cornhuskers

College football season is nearly upon us and well, Farm Equipment magazine is a Wisconsin product. This Twitter video shows an impressive show of “courage” by this Nebraska farm boy, but as was noted, “It’s the first time a Husker has stopped a Badger in at least a decade.” Another tweeted, “If this was real life, the Badger would have run over him for 400 yards.” … Don’t feel bad about the freefall from the glory days, Cornhuskers. Nebraska still remains the undisputed birthplace of Kool-Aid…

First time a Husker has stopped a Badger in at least a decade. https://t.co/XIwHIoshs4

— Ben Scholl (@ottoscholl) August 5, 2022

Soil Health Testing with Your Fruit of the Looms

While we can think of a few dealer friends who won’t want their undies inspected under any circumstance, a lot of your customers are volunteering with pride, well almost. The now-famous "soil your undies" soil test to measure soil health is circulating again and gaining notoriety on an array of media channels, including this South Dakota State University article. Dealers might join in on the fun for the next go-round; and maybe tighty whities could be the next dealer tsotchke? After all, the mainline-branded baseball caps are so “yesterday.”

Flashback to Caterpillar’s 25th Anniversary in the Quad Cities

Check out this full page ad Mark Van De Walle, a technical support specialist with Deere, found in the Quad City Times from March 1981. The company was celebrating 25 years in the Quad Cities, but the plant would ultimately shut down in 1988.

Are You Ready to Promote, Demo & Sell Autonomy?

During the 2022 Precision Farming Dealer Summit earlier this year, Mike Houghtaling, president of P&C Ag Solution; Bryan Fehr, general manager of Jenner Precision; and Todd Peterson, owner of Peterson Ag Service, shared their experiences in promoting, demoing and selling autonomy to farmers and offered insights on whether the market is ready (spoiler alert: it is). To get in on the early bird rate for the 2023 Precision Farming Dealer Summit in St. Louis, visit PrecisionFarmingDealer.com/pfd-summit .

How it Started - How it’s Going: Service Trucks Then & Now

Koenig Equipment recently shared the two photos below on LinkedIn of one of their trucks from early on in their 118 year history and today’s decked out mobile service truck, complete with a crane. They asked followers which truck they preferred. So far, the votes are favoring the vintage truck … they must not be service techs!

Product of the Week: Simol Intorduces New Range of ASABE/ISO 12140 Complaint Jacks

The following video represents a static vertical compressive load test regarding the new ASABE/ISO 12140 compliant range of jacks developed by Simol. Thanks to the analytical reports from our test rig, developed in partnership with the University of Bologna, our technicians have been able to develop the simol-q range. The ASABE/ISO 12140 standard applies to mechanically or hydraulically operated telescopic jacks, used for supporting and lifting agricultural equipment and agricultural machinery.

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