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EquipmentWatch Announces 2022 Highest Retained Value Award Winners

EquipmentWatch is pleased to announce the 2022 Highest Retained Value Award (HRVA) winners. There are 30 award categories covering construction, lift/access, and agricultural equipment, all powered by EquipmentWatch’s database and more than 9 million market observations. The awards are a culmination of more than 100 analyst hours reviewing and ranking more than 27,000 models.

Retained Value

Retained values are what you can anticipate a piece of equipment to be worth after a given period. For EquipmentWatch’s HRVA awards, the timeframe chosen is five years, so the retained values shown here are the anticipated values for a piece of equipment five years from now.

Retained values are often related to the concept of depreciation, which is a measure of how far a piece of equipment’s value decreases over time. Retained values are an integral part of equipment purchase and maintenance. At every step, from the rent/buy decisions to leasing operations and fleet management, knowing and understanding retained values can provide powerful insights into the optimal choice.

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Farm Equipment’s Move from New Product Tabloid to ‘Real Magazine’ Part 2

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One of the keys in Farm Equipment’s journey was the day it became a “real publication.” Up until the mid-1980s, it was largely a new products vehicle and was edited by Johnson Hill Press (JHP) workhorse Butch Horn, who was juggling 5 publications single-handedly.

A young Willie Vogt was transferred from JHP’s custom-publishing division in 1985 to turn Farm Equipment, which up to that point had been a new products tabloid, into a “real magazine.” He recalls the JHP meetings with Mike Martin, Jim Rank and the newly arrived Rich Reiff and getting the message that they wanted to “do something different and important in the market.”

In this video, Farm Equipment Editor/Publisher Mike Lessiter continues his conversation with Vogt, who shares his memories of his time with the magazine.