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What If & What Was: Reflections on Our Journey … Martin-Till

By Steve Martin posted on April 1, 2025 | Posted in Manufacturer News
Howard Martin was inducted into the Farm Equipment Shortline Legends Hall of Fame in 2024. He also earned myriad awards and honors from No-Till Farmer for his development of solutions specific to farmers’ ability to make no-till work. Martin passed away in February 2024. The article below, on Howard Dean Martin’s legacy of innovation and integrity, was written by his son and business partner, Steve Martin.
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To the Point

A New Metric to Measure

Your business also needs grinders, pounders, bruisers & cement-mixers on your team
By Mike Lessiter posted on March 31, 2025 | Posted in Best Practices
As you take in this week’s Final Four games, watch the efforts of those players doing the real toiling in the paint so others can secure the rebound. You’ll see several players who tirelessly box out – but whose efforts will never be reflected in the box score.
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Check-up on the Wellness of Women in Ag

By Christine Book posted on March 31, 2025
In conducting research on the role of women in agriculture over the past weeks in commemoration of Women’s History Month, several noteworthy articles emerged from a team of researchers at the University of Georgia.
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Ahead of the Curve

Large Domestic Autonomous Aerial Applicator Comes to Midwest

Regional aerial service Heinen Brothers is part of the commercialization process of Pyka, a young California startup’s global reach into unmanned aerial application platforms.
By Dan Crummett posted on March 24, 2025 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions
Growers in the western Corn Belt and parts of the Southern Plains may notice a strange, slow, high-wing spray plane at work this summer over row-crop fields and some pastures — a sight that likely will become commonplace soon.
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To The Point

Our ‘What-If’ Story ...

By Mike Lessiter posted on March 21, 2025 | Posted in Best Practices
Farm Equipment recently launched the “What If & What Was” series, borrowing from the film, It’s a Wonderful Life. Thanks to a dramatic intercession, as you’ll recall, George Bailey was shown a world in which he’d never been born. Read your peers’ thoughts — had their business “failed to launch” or survive — here.
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