For the first time in the last 5 years, Meyer Mfg. received the highest overall mean score among shortline manufacturers, ranking first in 10 of 12 categories.

Farm Equipment’s second shortline farmer survey found growers continue to purchase shortline equipment based on price, special features and availability.

In its first year on the survey, Kubota Canada takes the top slot among full-line manufacturers, while Branson ranked 1st among tractor manufacturers for the 3rd year in a row.

Michael Horsch shares off-the-cuff stories on his early start with products no one wanted, how the fall of the Berlin Wall kept his business afloat and some strong opinions on the farmer, dealer and manufacturer relationship

Kentucky grain producer Joe Sisk and Jeff Morgan, H&R Agri-Power (Case IH dealer) share views into each other’s world and why they have not yet consummated a high-ticket deal for Sisk’s 5,000-acre operation, which remains 100% green on combines and tractors. As soon as they sat down, Sisk (45) reminded Morgan (53) that he’d been his tractor engine instructor in 4H 33 years earlier. Morgan remembered the class and the curriculum (“intake, compression, power and exhaust”) but hadn’t realized Sisk had been in the class.