What others often forget is that another is rising up to the challenge because they’re watching you. Most of us behave because we learned from someone ahead of us. That’s how life’s greatest lessons get passed down.

In this episode, Executive Editor Kim Schmidt sat down with Brian McGuire, president and CEO of Associated Equipment Distributors, who had just returned from AED’s Policy Conference in Washington D.C.

In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we talk with NAEDA Director of Dealer Development Tom Healy about some of the dealer-manufacturer relations issues the association has tackled this year.

The creation of an environmental agenda P&L -- that recognizes the big picture rather than obsessions on any one piece -- can keep foolhardy notions grounded where they belong.

In this episode, Executive Editor Kim Schmid sits down with Brett Davis CEO of the North American Equipment Dealers Assn. Brett’s been in the role of CEO since July, and just 3 months into the job is already busy meeting with dealers, manufacturers, other associations and other service providers who work closely with dealers, like finance and software companies. In our conversation, we cover what these first few months have been like, what he hopes to accomplish as CEO and the challenges he anticipates dealers will face in the evolving ag economy.

In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we take a look at some of the details in a lawsuit between Hutson Inc. and its former CEO, Josh Waggener.

To The Point: Judge me on my Losers by Farm Equipment

In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we take a look at dealers initial forecasters for 2026 and their latest forecast for 2025 sales. In the Technology Corner, Noah Newman visits with Clint Brauer, co-founder of Greenfield Robotics.

In this episode, Managed Editor Christine Book sat down with John Fulton, a professor with Ohio State Univ.’s Department of Food, Agriculture and Biological Engineering,while working on Farm Equipment’s first-ever special report on careers in precision ag for the October/November issue of the magazine.

In this episode, I sat down with George Russell, founding member of the Machinery Advisors Consortium, who we’ve been working with on the annual Big Dealer Report since 2009 to track dealer consolidation.