With a curious mind & a wood-carved model, the founder of Great Plains Mfg. built a manufacturing empire for ag implements that would eventually help Kubota fast-track its entry into production ag
The quiet, unassuming Roy Applequist, founder of Great Plains, was the subject of many Farm Equipment interviews since Lessiter Media acquired the magazine in 2004.
The Farm Equipment in your hands today is 20 years in the making. Shortly after acquiring Farm Equipment (and what would become Ag Equipment Intelligence and Farm Innovations) in 2004, we learned our fate was tied to the shortline equipment manufacturers.
A failed Air Force physical redirected a prodigious welder to answer the calls
that led to a vertically integrated & diversified manufacturing giant that bears his name
Don Landoll, one of 8 children raised on a farm in Hanover, Kan., was destined to be a manufacturer. With the encouragement of his parents, he graduated from Tinker Toys to an Erector set at age 7, before the farmstead even had its own electricity.
Hutson Inc. is no stranger to turnaround nor the surprise and pivot, even dating back to 2008 when dealer principal Dan Hutson II died in a plane crash at age 54.
I have to admit that in nearly 20 years of covering the business and as a business owner myself, there’s a heaping helping of skepticism on the subject of the viability of the company store.
Two weeks ago, 2 or my 3 sons and I hopped in the truck to see my uncle and cousins in Michigan and go back and see the land settled by our British ancestors in 1853.
With the CDK-e-Emphasys merger in May further reducing the independent software choices for dealers, our “deep dive” into software for our next edition is most timely.
This “naked pursuit of scale” and quest for market share sounds familiar. Farm machinery manufacturers and their dealers have dealt with this push-pull reality for decades (at least since I started covering the industry in 2004).
This blog was posted in response to Frank Lessiter’s article, “133 Right-to-Repair Concerns -- Growers Get Loud,” that was a follow-up to a unique content project between Lessiter Media’s farm equipment and grower divisions. To view the original work, click here to review the arguments for dealers/manufacturers (Executive Editor Kim Schmidt) and growers (Grower Division Editorial Chairman Frank Lessiter).
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we look at the implications Deere's settlement with the FTC has on the broader industry.
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