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Margy Eckelkamp

Margy Eckelkamp is the brand leader for Farm Journal’s Top Producer and The Daily Scoop, specializing in business reporting for CEO farmers and agricultural professionals. She provides actionable intelligence to help operations navigate farmland dynamics, diversified revenue streams and overall profitability. Margy’s expertise spans regulatory and EPA issues, ag retail trends and tech innovations – topics she explores in depth on The Scoop podcast. Her nuanced analysis of modern business management ensures agricultural leaders are equipped to make informed decisions in a rapidly changing economic landscape.

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Innovations range from tractors to combine technologies.
Make next spring’s planter pass your most confident yet. And these two events have special guest Machinery Pete.
Corn College has announced its two winter seminars for the southern farmer.
Farm Journal will host six planter clinics to get your crop off to a strong start
With the new 8 Series, John Deere deepening its focus on how its machinery is more about delivering agronomic solutions than just iron, and it has two new offerings as examples.
The company has also announced a new model naming system highlighting series, opener style and width.
Starting in 1993, Precision Planting was led by founder Gregg Sauder. In 2012, the company went through a series of acquisitions (and one potential acquisition). With the launch of Radicle Agronomy, here’s a look back.
Greg Briggs, a customer of Sloan Implement Company, has a new combine that marks a milestone for John Deere. Briggs’s 9870 is the 500,000th combine the company has made. “We’ve been making John Deere products at this factory for almost 100 years and self-propelled combines for more than 60 years,” says Dennis Muszalski, factory manager. “Reaching this milestone is a very proud day for all the employees at Harvester Works.”
Claas Orbis 900 header, Demco 1350 grain cart, DynaFlex draper header, New Holland Workmaster Tractors
Apache self-propelled sprayers, New Holland H7150 Mower, Massey Ferguson 9005 Combines, Challenger MT700C Tractors