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:
- Dad Jokes with Heritage Tractor
- 60 Years of Butter Sculpting
- Kendal Quandahl’s Journey from Farmer to Precision Leader
- Meet Your Meat Event
- Sidedress Switch: No-Till Innovator Swaps Coulters for Knives
Dad Jokes with Heritage Tractor
Need a laugh?? Take a break with some laughs from the Heritage Tractor team’s best dad jokes. Keep the jokes coming, Heritage, we’re here for the laughs!
60 Years of Butter Sculpting
If you find yourself in Minnesota Aug 21-Sept 1, you might want to check out the Minnesota State Fair to see the Princess Kay butter sculpture in all its glory (we guess?). This year marks 60 years of the butter sculpting tradition.
Kendal Quandahl’s Journey from Farmer to Precision Leader
Here’s a fun read from FarmProgress about Kendal Quandahl’s journey to becoming the precision farming lead for Case IH.
Meet Your Meat Event
SNP Cares, part of Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners, proudly supports the 14th Annual Meet Your Meat event at the University of Missouri - Columbia. This event is sponsored by the Mizzou Collegiate Cattlewomen, a group of women promoting the beef industry and educating consumers.
Sidedress Switch: No-Till Innovator Swaps Coulters for Knives
On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, the team pays a visit to No-Till Innovator Jim Leverich for a look at some of his new equipment in Sparta, Wis. In the Cover Crop Connection, associate editor Mackane Vogel gets an up-close look at No-Till Innovator Jim Hershey’s new cover crop plot in Elizabethown, Pa.
Later in the episode, we stop by the Flickner Innovation Farm in Moundridge, Kan., where the no-tiller and strip-tillers are testing new Deere precision technology. Plus, agronomist Brian Hefty shares his biggest no-till success story on the Conservation in Action Tour, and finally in the Video of the Week, Iowa State’s Rebecca Vittetoe gives us the scoop on the upcoming Strip-Till Field Day.
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