Fall Fencing & Feed Hauling: Picking the Right Gator for Livestock
Match the Gator to the load, not the badge: fencing and feed math Before you look at horsepower, add up your heaviest routine load. Twenty 50 lb bags of feed is a thousand pounds by itself. Add a post driver, a roll of woven wire, a handful of...
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Combine Yield Map Calibration: Trustworthy Fall Harvest Data for Spring
Data off an uncalibrated combine is worse than no data at all. It comes out of the monitor looking authoritative, gets loaded into John Deere Operations Center, and quietly skews every seed and fertility decision you build on it next spring. Before...
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Rotary Cutter Selection for Fall Cleanup on a Compact Tractor
If your fall property work list includes an overgrown fence line, a pasture that got away from you during summer, brush along a ditch that has not been cut in two years, or a field edge that needs to be knocked down before the leaves fall, the right...
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What Ferris Suspension Actually Does for a Fall Property Owner
If you own 20-plus acres and you have been running the same non-suspension zero-turn for six or seven summers, there is a decent chance your body knows something about the machine that your budget has not fully processed yet. Long mowing runs on...
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What Comes into the Used Compact Tractor Lot in Late Summer
Walk into any Koenig used equipment lot the second and third weeks of August and the compact tractor inventory looks different than it did in April. Not just because different specific units are on the lot, but because the mix and character of what...
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Reading Last Year's Yield Data to Build Your Fall Wheat Prescription
Fall wheat planting for most Ohio and Indiana growers is 3 to 4 weeks out. The seed order is either placed or nearly placed. The drill or air seeder is either serviced or on the schedule. The decision that is often still open at this point is the...
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Grain Cart Selection: Matching the Cart to Your Combine, Field, and Roads
The grain cart is one of the more consequential purchase decisions a corn or soybean operation makes, and one of the more commonly under-thought ones. Combine gets attention. Planter gets attention. The tractor pulling the cart gets attention. The...
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Get the Part You Need Delivered the Same Day You Order It
Modern expectations for delivery have changed. What used to take a week now feels slow at three days. What used to take three days now feels slow if it does not arrive today. Large retailers built their entire logistics infrastructure to meet that...
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Late-Summer Mower Buying: How the Model-Year Cycle Actually Works
Every year around this time, at least a dozen people walk into one of our locations, look at the mower lineup, and ask some version of the same question. When is the best time to buy a mower? The salespeople give an honest answer that is more...
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