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Winter-proof your farm tires: Essential tips for the cold season

Adequate storage, maintenance and care are crucial to making tires last when temperatures drop.
January 7, 2025
Greg Jones

Winter is here and with it comes colder temperatures, wet or icy ground and snow in some areas. Despite the changing weather conditions, you still need to get work done, and farm tire maintenance is crucial to staying productive, no matter the weather.


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Equipment Hub: Anatomy of a simple repair

January 3, 2024
Brad Nelson

The standard answer to reducing repairs in agriculture or anything else is simply to stop breaking things. The first step, IMHO, (in my humble opinion), is to figure out why something broke in the first place.


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Equipment Hub: Getting attached to your loader

April 14, 2023
Andy Overbay

A front-end loader on a tractor can be a very handy thing to have on the farm. 


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Equipment Hub: Custom forage harvester adjustments to make you and the nutritionist happy

September 7, 2022
Josh Harkenrider

Whether you’re a custom chopper or harvesting forage for yourself, there are several adjustments you can make to your self-propelled forage harvester to meet the quality forage needs set by your customers’ (or your own) nutritionist. 



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Equipment Hub: Troubleshooting tips for servicing your robotic milking system

August 12, 2022
Shawn Van Note

What happens when your internet isn’t working? You’re probably not going to call your internet provider immediately. Instead, after some cursing and dusting off the barn grime, you might check your router, disconnect and reconnect your modem, check if there’s an outage or restart your device.


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Equipment Hub: The case for electrification, automation and artificial intelligence in farming

July 20, 2022
Mark Schwager
The saying “work smarter, not harder” dates back to the 1930s and is attributed to Allen F. Morgenstern, an industrial engineer who created a work simplification program that boosted productivity while requiring less effort.
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Equipment Hub: The precision farming way to measure feed nutrition

May 24, 2022
Claude Lesperance
Alfalfa is a power-packed ingredient in cattle rations, especially for the dairy producer. Yet this crop can add more uncertainty to the ration than any other ingredient.
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Equipment Hub: The scoop on the goop

May 7, 2022
Andy Overbay
A few days ago, friends on a Facebook group page were discussing the best way to create a substitute gasket for an antique tractor. All manner of methods and materials were cussed and discussed.
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Equipment Hub: Pros and cons of straight piping

April 19, 2022
Andy Overbay
We’ve all heard those diesel pickups pulling away from a parking lot – black smoke rolling with the distinctive roar and whistle of a turbocharged diesel engine.
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Equipment Hub: Top equipment trends for 2022

March 11, 2022
Ben Sheldon
If we’re looking for the top equipment trends for 2022, autonomy and automation head the list.
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