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Looking Back: A Lot of Change in Shortline Equipment

A Look Back on Farm Equipment with: Hans Rasmussen, Business Development, Summers Manufacturing, Bloomington, Ill.

By Hans Rasmussen posted on September 6, 2023 | Posted in Niche Equipment Markets

Back in the 1980s, when I started in equipment sales in Ontario, Canada it was a tough time for farmers because interest rates were 23% as compared to today’s rates at 7-9%.

Summers Manufacturing Taps Rasmussen for Dealer Development Role

April 17, 2023 | Posted in Manufacturer News

Hans Rasmussen has joined Devils Lake, N.D.-based Summers Manufacturing, where he will help strengthen the company's dealer base in Ontario, Canada, and throughout the Midwest.

Summers Manufacturing Promotes Fortin to South Dakota Territory Manager

August 24, 2022 | Posted in Manufacturer News

In his new position, Bake Fortin will travel throughout the state to work closely with dealers and customers. He will also attend trade shows, conduct field demonstrations, place orders, and ensure the successful delivery and implementation of products.

Summers Manufacturing Appoints Jeremy Trostad as Director of Operations

August 5, 2022 | Posted in Manufacturer News

Summers Manufacturing has promoted Jeremy Trostad to Director of Operations. He will now support the production and engineering departments to help achieve company objectives.

Matthew Volkmar New Summers Director of Sales and Marketing

Summers Manufacturing Hires Director of Sales and Marketing

January 6, 2022 | Posted in Manufacturer News

Summers Manufacturing has hired Matthew Volkmar as its new Director of Sales and Marketing. In this position, Volkmar will help forecast equipment sales and lead the company’s territory managers in achieving those goals.

Great Plains Turbo-Seeder Cover Crop Seeder

By Ben Thorpe posted on October 8, 2021 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions

The Turbo-Seeder cover crop attachment for Turbo-Max and Terra-Max offers a productive method for broadcast seeding cover crops with a vertical or hybrid tillage tool.

Last Year’s Weather is Pushing No-Till Farmers to Look at Emergency Tillage

By Ben Thorpe posted on March 24, 2020 | Posted in Best Practices

Regardless of tillage practices, no growers were safe from last year’s weather. With the summer’s moisture sticking around into the fall (and in some places into the winter), many growers missed crucial fall tillage to get their seedbeds ready.

What Tillage Practices Will Get Growers Back on Their Feet This Spring?

Following last year’s weather problems, dealers will likely see growers leaning into a variety of tillage practices to catch up where last year put them behind. Manufacturers share what they expect to see.

By Ben Thorpe posted on March 23, 2020 | Posted in Best Practices, Product Innovations & Introductions

The 2019 planting season wasn’t kind to growers in North America. Overly wet conditions plagued them at every turn, which for many created tough working conditions in their fields.

Summers VT Flex Applicator

January 10, 2020 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions, Tillage

The new VT Flex Applicator from Summers is a fully customizable fertilizer application tool, allowing operators to precisely place up to three fertilizer mediums (dry, liquid and anhydrous ammonia) at high rates simultaneously while maintaining speeds up to 8 mph.

Variable Intensity Tillage Offers Solutions for Varying Soil Conditions

By tilling fields according to soil type and residue conditions, growers will be able to control erosion, save time and fuel and maintain the productivity of their soils.

By Dan Crummett posted on March 18, 2019 | Posted in Niche Equipment Markets, Manufacturer News

As precision agriculture honed practices for planting, fertilizing, watering and harvesting crops over the past 20 years, it has lagged somewhat in helping farmers with what many say is historically the most important factor of agriculture — preparing a proper seedbed for planting and protecting the soil for future crops.

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Farm Equipment Videos

Solectrac Exec Talks Search for New Investor, Future of Electric Tractor Market

In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we talk to a Solectrac executive about the company's search for a new investor. In the Technology Corner, Noah Newman talks about the majors' growing presence in the precision retrofit market.

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Yetter Farm Equipment

Built on 90 years of expertise, Yetter Farm Equipment leads the agriculture industry in designing effective and innovative equipment for residue management, seedbed preparation, precision fertilizer placement, harvest attachments, strip-tillage, and more.

Montag Mfg

Montag is the industry’s innovative leader for precise, accurate metering of fertilizer, seed and other nutrients. The Montag system has become the standard for deep banding of fertilizer. Montag is also pioneering the technology for cover crop seed application. The new Cover Crop+ is able to meter the smallest seed, and can be mounted to tillage implements, combines, plus Hagie sprayers and detasselers.

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