Rural Lifestyle Dealer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of the rural lifestyle market. Here is our favorite content from the past week:

• Ballweg Implement Hosts ‘Gator Wars’
• The 12 Films Anyone in Sales Must See
• Ontario Dealer Warns Against New Scam
• P&K Equipment Supplies Tractors to OSU Student Farm
• What is Your Management Style?

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Ballweg Implement Hosts ‘Gator Wars’

Hosted by Ballweg Implement and John Deere Horicon Works, 8 area high schools brought teams to compete in unknown challenges such as installing a spark plug, setting an electrical planter transmission, and identifying parts on a tractor or spread out on a table. 

The 12 Films Anyone in Sales Must See

In honor of the Oscars earlier this past week, here are the 12 films that should be required viewing for anyone in sales. What’s your favorite sales movie quote? “Coffee is for closers” from Glengarry Glen Ross is regularly quoted around the Farm Equipment office.

Ontario Dealer Warns Against New Scam

An Ontario farm equipment dealer was recently swindled out of a $4,000 tractor part by a scammer who bought the salvaged John Deere rear end over the phone with a fraudulently obtained credit card number. The transaction went through as smooth as butter. But two months later — long after the part shipped and the buyer took delivery — the legitimate credit card holder discovered the fraud and the payment was retroactively withdrawn from the victimized dealer.

Bruce County’s Matt Ireland says a sophisticated scam included a $4,000 deposit in his bank account before he delivered the tractor part, but after the part was delivered the money was withdrawn

P&K Equipment Supplies Tractors to OSU Student Farm

P&K Equipment is lending a helping hand to the Oklahoma State University Student Farm on its mission to feed the community. On Feb. 26, the company delivered two tractors for operational use at no cost to the farm.

Representatives from P&K Equipment in Stillwater deliver two John Deere tractors to managers, student employees and other officials at the OSU Student Farm. (Photo by: Mia Pentz, OSU Agriculture)

What is Your Management Style?

The folks at Alliance Tractor gave us a behind-the-scenes look at their techs giving the service manager some helpful feedback on his management style!

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