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:

• Horsch Debuts Liquid Innovation at Agritechnica
• Here Comes the Bride …
• What’s a ‘New Collar’ Job & What Do They Have to Do with Your Dealership?
• Is the Compact Tractor Market Too Crowded?
• Looking Back: Inaugural Cover Story Dealer, 20 Years Later
• Do Your Customers 'Drink From the Hose'?

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Horsch Debuts Liquid Innovation at Agritechnica

In addition to its product innovations that will be introduced, there will also be a special innovation at the Agritechnica: Sitzenhofer — HORSCH beer.

Here comes the bride…

on a Fendt Ideal Combine. Congratulations Karlie Eddleman and Wyatt Bracken!

What’s a ‘New Collar’ Job & What Do They Have to Do with Your Dealership?

With technology and automation transforming agriculture, the industry is grappling to come up with new ways to attract, cultivate and hang on to skilled workers in this ‘new collar’ job landscape. In many ways, it’s a good problem to have. For an industry that has been passed off at times as outdated, volatile and back breaking, this wave of digital transformation and innovation has brought ‘sexy back’ to the sector and workforce we rely on to feed the world. Read more in this article from Trimble.

Is the Compact Tractor Market Too Crowded?

In this video from Messick’s, Neil Messick breaks down why the compact tractor market is so crowded and why he thinks why some need to go out of business.

Looking Back: Inaugural Cover Story Dealer, 20 Years Later

In this blog Ted Mallard, President of American Equipment Service Inc. writes, "I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since you wrote your 1st cover story on our business, AES, in Farm Equipment. I guess when I look, I have a few more gray hairs but I’m glad to be in an industry in which I thoroughly enjoy going to work every day and apparently that has helped the time fly by."

Do Your Customers 'Drink From the Hose'?

In this article, Tim Brannon shares, "I was cleaning the windows of the combine cab at the farm last week when 3 young kids out on fall break came by on bikes. 'Mr., do you have a bottle of water to drink? We're thirsty!', the largest of the three ask. I replied, 'Sorry but I have nothing.' Then being the borderline genius I am, I offered them a drink from the water hose from the farm well (don't think my cognitive processes are slipping in old age). They collectively looked at each other and the young lass with the two boys gagged."

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