This year, Rural Lifestyle Dealer marks its fifth year of publishing. We are proud to have been chronicling the rural lifestyle market from its early stages. People have credited us for bringing the term "rural lifestyle"? into the vernacular of dealers and manufacturers. We knew then and we know now: Dealers have questions about how to serve rural lifestyle customers, and Rural Lifestyle Dealer provides strategies to succeed.

Janeth and Tom Tomlin’s life in the country began 13 years ago with the purchase of five acres about 30 miles south of San Antonio, Texas. Idyllic? Hardly.

Armstrong Truck & Tractor began with the intention to offer homeowners, hobby farmers, farmers and landscapers with dependable and trustworthy sales, parts and service of new and used equipment and supplies.

Mahindra & Mahindra`s Farm Equipment Sector, a part of the USD $15.4 billion Mahindra Group, announced the total tractor sales in September 2012 came in at 20,085 units vs. 24,673 units for the same period last year, a decline of 18.6%.

Generac Holdings Inc. has raised its fiscal third quarter and full-year outlook, saying demand is up for its residential generators.

Sales of existing homes surged 7.8% in August to the best level in more than a year as low interest rates and a slowly improving jobs market help fuel a rebound in activity.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has mandated that all consumers in the United States must purchase at least 4 gallons of gasoline when they go to the gas station, if they are getting fuel from a pump that also offers a new E15 ethanol-gasoline blend.

Optimism among the nation's home builders climbed in September for the fifth straight month to reach the highest level in more than six years, according to a closely followed index released Tuesday.

"E15 has been hamstrung this summer because of summer volatility rules, governed by the EPA," said Robert White, director of market development for the Renewable Fuels Association.

Each year, since 1944, the third week in September has been recognized as National Farm Safety& Health Week.