What motivates a family to design and build a massive agricultural shop so innovative it would win AgricultureOnline's Top Shop Contest? The Smith family faced a dilemma that's all too common among growing farms: More acres demanded wider equipment to keep pace with planting and harvest.



The family's old shop -- once ideal for eight-row heads, 16-row planters, and straight trucks -- couldn't consume larger machines.

So the Rochester, Indiana, farm team of Dave and Kevin Smith tapped into the expertise of their father, Dale, and team of employees to design a facility for the future -- a shop where an entire fleet of machinery could be tended to under one roof at one time.