Category: 21st Century Equipment Life

  • 21st Century Equipment Joint Planter & Sprayer Clinic

    21st Century Equipment Joint Planter & Sprayer Clinic

    A great time was had by all at our Sidney and Imperial 21st Century Equipment locations during our spring clinics! Participants were invited to attend one or both of two clinics to learn about all things John Deere. The goal of our spring clinics is to educate John Deere equipment users on how to best…


  • 21st Century Equipment + Sugar Beet Harvest

    21st Century Equipment + Sugar Beet Harvest

    At 21st Century Equipment, we’re honored to support farmers as they produce one of Nebraska’s most unique crops: sugar beets.


  • Briann Schwartz’s 21st Century Equipment Experience

    Briann Schwartz’s 21st Century Equipment Experience

    At 21st Century Equipment, we’re proud to provide farmers, ranchers and property owners of all kinds the best in John Deere equipment, parts and service. Still, we know that it’s the people who make up our organization that make us really stand out.


  • 21st Century Equipment Announces Mobile Learning Lab

    21st Century Equipment Announces Mobile Learning Lab

    SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. – 21st Century Equipment has announced plans to construct a mobile learning lab, utilizing funds obtained from a Nebraska Developing Youth Talent Initiative (DYTI) grant.


  • Meet Our Team: Trent Mason on 21st Century Equipment

    Meet Our Team: Trent Mason on 21st Century Equipment

    Trent Mason is a Customer Service Representative at our Holyoke location. Trent assists in both the parts and service departments, keeping our customers’ needs top of mind at all times.


  • Ag Tech Students 2022

    Ag Tech Students 2022

    21st Century Equipment is pleased to announce the following students have been accepted into the 21st Century Equipment-sponsored John Deere Ag Tech program for 2022. These high school graduates will attend Southeast Community College in Milford enrolled in the John Deere Ag Tech program. 21st Century Equipment awards these students with a brand new Snap-On…


  • From Scottsbluff to Kherson: Alex Tkachenko’s Story

    From Scottsbluff to Kherson: Alex Tkachenko’s Story

    On February 24, 2022, Alex Tkachenko awoke to the sound of explosions. As export coordinator at 21st Century Equipment, Alex was visiting family in his hometown of Kherson, Ukraine, during a business trip to the country. Little did he know he would bear witness to the day Russia invaded Ukraine, effectively igniting a war between…


  • Owen Palm, 2022 Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement honoree

    Owen Palm, 2022 Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement honoree

    Owen Palm is the owner and founder 16 Nebraska John Deere dealerships and the former CEO of Western Sugar Cooperative. He served as the co-chair of BluePrint Nebraska, and has been a strong supporter of UNL’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Western Nebraska Community College and various natural resources groups, among other entities.


  • How a 3rd generation farm grew into a treasured local winery

    How a 3rd generation farm grew into a treasured local winery

    The Kauffman family lives on a 3rd generation family farm in Fort Morgan, Colorado. A farm where Dan Kauffman learned to set irrigation tubes at the age of nine, grow corn and alfalfa on the 400 acres and where his love of wine took root.


  • How commodity prices and supply chain issues are affecting our industry

    How commodity prices and supply chain issues are affecting our industry

    I’m sure you will agree that saying the last year and a half has been challenging is an understatement—a nearly year-long, world-wide pandemic followed now by an acute shortage of almost everything.