We know business insurance. In fact, we’ve been providing it to companies like yours for over a century. So when you choose to trust your business with us, you can be confident that we’ll get to know your operations and your employees.

We encourage our members to leverage this expertise by exploring Sentry’s free resources and tapping into their experienced safety team. Their library offers a wealth of safety materials, including dozens of insightful articles.

Topics include: Establishing a Product Safety Process at Your Business, Document Management Program, Reporting an Incident or Claim: A Guide for Farm Equipment Manufacturers and Loss Control Guidelines.

May 20, 2026 | 10-11 A.M. CT Sentry Webinar: Depending on your industry, OSHA inspections come with the territory. You may have questions like:

• What are my rights and responsibilities?
• How do I prepare for an inspection?
• What do I do during and after the compliance officer’s visit?

Don’t worry. We’re here to help you prepare for an unexpected OSHA inspection.

Webinar Offerings: For a comprehensive list of all webinars, go to .

Sentry Resource Library: Members can find a comprehensive library of safety resources from Sentry at: FarmEquip.org/SentrySafetyLibrary.

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Members of this Association represent success stories, many of which are also family stories. These stories include innovation, risk, sacrifice, and exhausting effort. They are stories with heart, and that sometimes makes it difficult to write the chapter in which the main character surrenders the lead role.

It can be tough to talk about succession, especially now, when there is little time to talk about anything, said Justin Mentele. The intensity and challenge facing the farm equipment industry may, in fact, serve as a catalyst for many leaders to consider now the right time to step aside and slow down.

When it is time to consider a transition in leadership and ownership, you should first define two terms that can create confusion: estate planning and succession planning.

Estate planning covers the transition of financial wealth or physical assets from one generation to the next. The process typically begins during one’s lifetime, but often does not complete until after death. This hand-off process requires difficult decision-making and thoughtful planning.

Succession planning is based less on physical and more on psychological transitions. At the heart of succession planning is a person, or group of people, who have been in control of the day-to-day and strategic operations of a company. It represents what can be the emotional task of transitioning control to others. The process of co-creating psychological ownership of the vision, strategy, goals, decisions, performance, and results of the company is not easy.

Both types of planning are critically important!

Talk to a Professional at Pinion
The Association has formed a partnership, with Pinion, to offer members no-cost, confidential, 60-minute consultations on succession planning and mergers and acquisitions.

To take advantage of this member benefit, contact Justin Mentele at Pinion at (463) 209-7606 or Justin.Mentele@PinionGlobal.com.

The webinar is 1:30 p.m. Central this Thursday, March 24. Enquiron will offer an overview of the service, which includes:

• Cyber Assessment—15-question assessment to gauge cyber exposure with recommendations to become more secure
• Cyber Training (10 modules) for employees on topics such as phishing, malware, and best practices.)
• A baseline customized phishing campaign with feedback on results
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• Incident response plans
• Library of policies on topics such as mobile device policy; document retention; etc.
• Breach response services breach notification rules by state
• Cyber audit kit to help companies prepare for such an audit.

Find a link to join the webinar at . Registration is not required. Call (314) 878-2304 with questions, or send an email to Matt Rice at Matt@FarmEquip.org.

Our Services Corp. Board of Directors last week approved providing a new cybersecurity benefit to members. The online service offers web-based employee training courses, customizable incident response plans, assessments of cyber risks, templates for policies and procedures, and much more.

Josh Linton from Enquiron will join the Association for a breakout session in Oklahoma City to discuss cyber risks and a new, no-cost cyber resource for members.

Linton’s session is 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 4. To see the complete speaker roster, the schedule, registration list, and more, go to . Click on the “OKC” image.

ASABE has made the collection available in two formats: CD and flash card. Each format is fully searchable and contains 283 current ASAE/ASABE standards, engineering practices, and data applicable to agricultural equipment and systems, irrigation and drainage, structures, turf and landscape equipment, food engineering, and electric power applications.

The 2021 collection includes 61 adoptions of international standards, 17 of which were not based on ASABE documents. Also included are keyword and numerical indices and a list of active standards development projects.

These resources are a $695 value if ordered directly through ASABE. Members of the ąű¶łĘÓƵ who do not have access to ASABE standards can obtain a copy through the Association as a benefit of your membership.

To get yours, contact Rachel Boehm at the Association at Rachel@FarmEquip.org, or .

These square-head, grade-8 bolts have a three-quarter inch coarse thread and are five-and-a-quarter inches long. The threaded area is three-and-a-quarter inches. The throat is two inches.

The associated lock nuts are a traditional six-sided design with three-quarter inch coarse thread and 90-degree taper.

The manufacturer has more than 1,000 of each and will sell for $2 per bolt and $2 per nut, or best offer.

Contact Jerry Ecklund at jerrye@unverferth.com, or (419) 532-3130, ext. 1233.

The ąű¶łĘÓƵ invites members to buy or sell their surplus supplies and equipment as part of a member benefit. This free service does not extend to the sale of manufacturers’ product lines.

Learn more about the surplus benefit from Matt Rice. Contact him at Matt@FarmEquip.org or (314) 878-2304.

Connections

This is the benefit our active members identify as the most valuable. By attending conventions, they’ve formed professional friendships that have influenced how they operate their business and understand the industry. These are powerful connections.

This is the benefit our active members identify as the most valuable. By attending conventions, they’ve formed professional friendships that have influenced how they operate their business and understand the industry. These are powerful connections.

Beyond the time together, the Association keeps you in touch through a membership directory—print and digital—that helps you find one another by executive name, company name, member type, products, and headquarter location.

Online Resources

In addition to our online directory, there is a host of resources behind a password-protected wall at . You can find archived copies of this newsletter, a database of laws organized by state relating to buyback, warranty, and lemon laws, a farm show calendar, samples of dealer contracts, legislative resources, and a Section 179 tax deduction calculator.

Savings
Members receive discounts on freight and logistics through our partner YRC. You also pay less to register for the annual Supply Summit & Showcase and Marketing & Distribution Convention.

For regular members who do not also belong to the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, the Association provides a free digital copy of the annual ASABE safety standards (a $650 value). Let us know if you would like a USB drive of current standards. Contact Rachel Boehm at Rachel@FarmEquip.org.

Finally, the benefit that can singularly recover your membership dues (and then some) is access to attorneys who specialize in human-resource law and dealer law. Members receive no-cost, confidential, 60-minute consultations with these attorneys for every new legal question.

Peace of Mind

Through a partnership with Sentry Insurance, members have access to a program that offers outstanding depth and expertise in insuring farm equipment manufacturers. Policyholders can tap into resources to assure their products, their property, and their workforce are as safe as possible and well-insured.

Product councils are also available for manufacturers of rotary cutters, towed implements, post hole diggers, and tillage equipment. The groups discuss product safety issues.

Advocacy

Shortline manufacturers’ needs are not the same as multi-national tractor corporations, and neither are your resources. You are affected differently by standards revised to comply with European specifications, for example, or by a push to sell only one color of equipment on dealers’ lots. We are here to be your voice, and we cultivate relationships, monitor legislation, regulation, and standards development to be perpetually prepared to advocate on your behalf.

Information

We stay engaged in industry news to bring you the information that matters the most through this newsletter, the quarterly Ag Innovator magazine, speakers at conventions, our social media channels, and more.

The online directory is as current as you make it. When you have staff changes or add products, we update our password-protected web resource as soon as you tell us.

That digital resource, which allows you to search by company, individual, and product, has a companion piece in a book the Association publishes every other year.

That book is in production now. The person at your company defined as the Association’s primary contact recently received (or soon will) an email from Rachel Boehm asking you to update your listing.

The data you provide feeds into our website and ultimately the book.
The Association receives requests for this 200-page plus collection of information that offers contact information by member category, geography, and the categories mentioned above.

Questions? Call (314) 878-2304. Or send an email to Rachel@FarmEquip.org.

If you have labor law questions, call attorneys David James and Joe Schmitt at Nilan Johnson Lewis at (612) 305-7500.

If you have questions about the Payroll Protection Program, taxes, or federal laws passed in response to COVID-19, contact Justin Mentele at KCoe Isom at (463) 209-7606 or jmentele@kcoe.com.

You are entitled to no-cost, 60- minute consultations in each case.

KCoe Isom is a member company that offers tax services and business growth strategies to the farm equipment industry. As the nation has responded to the pandemic, KCoe has developed related to the Payroll Protection Program, including strategies to maximize forgiveness, as well as the broader CARES Act, and the Families First Conoravirus Response Act.

The company wants to support the shortline industry and has partnered with the Association.

Justin Mentele, a CPA who focuses on agriculture manufacturers and family-run businesses, is available to field your questions. Contact him at jmentele@kcoe.com or call (463) 209-7606. Most questions likely can be resolved in the no-cost, 60-minute window. This benefit is for a limited time and is specific to questions related to COVID-19.

In addition to tools and advice on the KCoe website, the Association continues to build its resource page for members. Go to to find these resources and much more:

• Information on proper use of PPP funds and debt forgiveness.
• State legislative actions.
• Tips and tools from Association partner Sentry Insurance.
• Employee application for leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
• Additional options for funding and grants for small businesses.
• Sample of an announcement of a positive test in your workplace.
• List of disinfectants approved as effective cleaning agents against the coronavirus.