Insights and Stories of Scott Garvey

Queuing up for lunch

Aug. 19, 2022 at 9:34 am CDT

We’ve all seen that famous old white-knuckle photograph. There’s a group of ironworkers having lunch sitting untethered on a steel girder way up in mid-air, dozens of floors above the street during construction of the Empire State Building. It must get the award for the most sparsely outfitted lunchroom ever. […]

Machines vs. climate change

Sep. 24, 2021 at 9:45 am CDT

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Hunting unicorns: John Deere builds a new home for rare talent

Dec. 27, 2019 at 2:41 pm CST

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John Deere 7R versus 8R tractors

Nov. 8, 2019 at 11:23 am CST

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Turning that workshop project into a business

Jul. 5, 2019 at 12:54 pm CDT

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Will today’s seeding equipment work in a higher-yield future?

Apr. 17, 2019 at 3:19 pm CDT

When Jeremy Hughes, product manager for seeding and planting implement manufacturer Horsch, makes the rounds to customer events, one of the questions he puts to attendees is this: can the air drill of today still be the implement of choice when farmers expect to grow 80-bushel-per acre canola? “It takes […]

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Farm equipment manufacturers feeling the heat

May. 18, 2018 at 11:01 am CDT

It has to rank right up there as one of the most hotly debated topics in the farm machinery industry, and it has become known by the catch phrase “Right to Repair.” John Deere was (and arguably still is) the primary focus of fury, with many both inside and outside […]

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Genius cabs coming to farm machinery

Jun. 9, 2017 at 10:03 am CDT

A few years ago I had the pleasure of interviewing the industrial designer who styled the cab and body of the first Challenger 65 belted ag tractors, which were then part of the Caterpillar brand before coming under AGCO ownership. Before coming to Cat, the designer had spent several years […]

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Rise of the ag-robots

Dec. 2, 2016 at 9:48 am CST

The sight of Case IH’s 400-horsepower robotic Magnum tractor built without an operator’s station at the U.S. Farm Progress Show in August had show goers talking — and talking, and talking. There was a virtual non-stop crowd of onlookers around it from the time the show gates in Boone, Iowa, […]

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High-flying farm workshop project

Jun. 10, 2016 at 11:06 am CDT

Many farmers have travelled long distances to bring back a unique restoration project to put in the workshop for the winter. But six men from Fairview, Alberta, may hold the record for having the most-difficult-to-retrieve farm shop project ever. They trekked all the way to Sitidgi Lake, Northwest Territories, to […]

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