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- What Farmers Want from You: More Education & Improved Support
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Start with these information-packed articles hand-picked by our editors:
33 Tips for Turning Billable Service Into Recurring Precision Revenue
Providing reliable service is a source of pride for dealers, but recouping a reasonable return on their time remains a challenge.
8 Tips for Building Better Dealer-Farmer Precision Partnerships
Three farmers and three precision equipment specialists discuss strategies for anticipating service needs, maximizing sales opportunities and avoiding customer conflict.
20 Employee Training & Retention Tips for Precision Ag Staff
A diverse group of dealers divulge their secrets to motivating new employees, making the most of training opportunities and why an ‘open book’ approach can be a competitive advantage.
Current Issue
Independent Dealer Succeeds with Old School Approach to Customer Service
What Farmers Want from You: More Education & Improved Support
Lessiter Media to Celebrate 1st Annual Precision Specialist Week
Autonomy & Robotics
- How Technology Has Revolutionized Safety in Agriculture
- [Video] ALL-IN-ONE: Terrakamp’s NEXAT System Performs All Crop-Related Functions
- Top Precision Takeaways from Farm Progress Show 2023
- [Technology Corner] Ecorobotix ARA Precision Sprayer Scans Field in Less Than 250 Milliseconds
- Corn Belt Co-Ops Invest in Solinftec Solix After Reducing Herbicides By 95%
Videos
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[Technology Corner] One Smart Spray “Leaves No Weeds Behind”
Fresh off its CropLife Iron ShowStopper Award at the Midwest Ag Industries Exhibition Show in Bloomington, Ill., the One Smart Spray system made its way 30 miles south to the Farm Progress Show in Decatur.
Ecorobotix ARA Precision Spot-Sprayer Debuts in U.S.
Ecorobotix, a Swiss agtech and artificial intelligence (AI) software company, has announced the U.S. introduction of its ARA, a system that scans the field and precision spot-sprays weeds. ARA was launched in 2021. It has since been used in 13 European countries and, most recently, expanded geographically to Canada and South America. ARA uses a combination of Ecorobotix’s UHP-Spray-Technology and the AI-driven Plant-by-Plant software.
Ryse Offers New Way to Navigate the Farm with RECON eVTOL
Ryse Aero Technologies CEO Mike Kowitz explains the many applications for the ultralight aircraft RECON eVTOL. Designed within FAA specifications to allow flight without a pilots license, the RECON allows for advanced field scouting, with more utility than its UAV counterpart. The RECON allows for any issues seen from the air to be immediately handled by simply landing the vehicle and solving the problem.
How We Did It Docuseries: 360 Yield Center (part 2)
Learn all about Sauder’s journey in his two-part interview with Farm Equipment Editor/Publisher Mike Lessiter. Sauder shares more secrets to success, stories of overcoming adversity, career-defining moments and lessons learned from his $250 million sale of Precision Planting to Monsanto in this episode of the “How We Did It” Docuseries.
Click here to watch Part 1.
Full Docuseries: farm-equipment.com/innovators-docuseries
PFD Features
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Future Farming Success Hinges on Customer Relationships
With principal involvement in three busy agricultural enterprises, Jason Mauck, 40, has to be constantly thinking, planning and doing to keep all the balls in the air as he juggles traditional family farm management, off-farm agronomic innovation, and the headaches and highs of innovating a new direct-marketing meat business. -
Turning Data Into Efficiency to Boost Your Precision Business
Farmers using precision technology generate valuable data about their farming operations. Dealerships often have access to it. But how do you ensure both the dealer and the farmer are making the best use of that data? And how can you segue that efficient use of data into revenue opportunities?
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Master Precision Management at Your Dealership
Whether your precision team consists of 2 people or 20, a commitment to excellent customer service, a solid training program and measurable expense benchmarks will put your precision department on a path to profitability.
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Market Forces, Reality & Political Winds Steer Autonomous Equipment Innovation
Supply chain, logistics, transportation and labor supply challenges magnify Cal/OSHA’s rejection of fully autonomous equipment.
From the Virtual Terminal
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Looking Back: Not Your Grandfather’s Farm Equipment Dealership…
Farmers are increasingly creating most of their planting/harvesting strategy with data-driven decisions that rely on sophisticated business platforms that collect data to analyze and make educated and informed decisions. -
A Labor Day Message: What Work Has Taught Me…
This morning, as part of a Labor Day message at church (“The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard,” Matthew 20), our pastor recapped the jobs he had in his lifetime. It spurred a conversation with my 17-year-old, Hayden, as he starts his senior year of high school. -
Stop Tolerating Jerks
Twice in the last month I’ve come across two businesses with a “no a@$h@&*” policy. In both instances the employee in mention was a high-performing, high revenue-generating salesperson.
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More Thoughts on That Emoji Grain Contract
A recent story has been making the rounds on ag websites about how a Canadian farmer agreed to a grain contract by texting a “thumbs-up” emoji. The farmer received a text message with an image of a grain contract offering to purchase 86 tons of flax for $17 per bushel.
Precision Farming Dealer Podcast
[Podcast] Inside the Smart Spraying Collaboration Between AGCO & Bosch BASF Smart Farming
In today’s episode of the Precision Farming Dealer podcast, brought to you by Ag Express, contributing editor Dan Crummett catches up with AGCO application product specialist Joe Dimler for a deep-dive into the significance of the collaboration, how the smart spraying system works and when growers and dealers can expect to see it on the market.
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Top Directory Listings
Ivy Tech Community College, Lafayette Campus
The college offers an associate degree in Applied Science in Agriculture (60 credit hours). Students enrolled in this program may specialize in precision farming technology by selecting up to 15 credit hours in this area and agriculture business, sales and agronomy.
Lake Region State College - Dakota Precision Ag Center
The college offers an AAS in Precision Agriculture and customized precision ag- related training for agricultural producers, insurance underwriters, equipment dealer and agricultural cooperative employees and others.
HTS Ag Precision Ag Solutions
Offering training on Ag Leader, Trimble, Reichhardt, Norac and Integris Systems in twice yearly customer training events (spring/fall). Also offering individual training opportunities on any HTS Ag products and SMS software, year round.
Reichhardt Electronic Innovations, Inc
Dealer technician and sales training available by appointment at Reichhardt Training Center or dealer location.
2023 Dealership Minds Summit
REGISTER FOR THE 2023 DEALERSHIP MINDS SUMMIT
Join top farm equipment dealerships from around North America on August 1-2, 2023 for 2-days of unrivaled learning and networking during the 2023 Dealership Minds Summit. No other event gives you a FOR DEALERS ONLY learning opportunity featuring targeted sessions that deliver the latest research, ideas and tools to help your dealership reach its top potential.
Farm Innovations Review
Dealer Product Showcase
This month's featured products geared towards equipment dealers.
Product Roundups
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Farm Progress Show Product Roundup 2023
Check out the latest offerings from these 2023 Farm Progress Show exhibitors. -
Strip-Tillage Product Roundup 2023
Check out the latest strip-tillage products from some of the industry's leading suppliers. -
Fertilizer Application Product Roundup 2023
Check out the latest fertilizer application products from some of the industry's leading suppliers.
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2017 Precision Farming Dealer Summit Meeting Binder
If you weren't able to attend Farm Equipment and Precision Farming Dealer's SOLD OUT 2017 Precision Farming Dealer Summit, you can still have the opportunity to learn leading strategies to evolve and improve the way you sell, service and support precision technology by purchasing an attendee binder.
2016 AEI Dealer Business Outlook and Trends - Farm Equipment Forecast (PDF)
Based on surveys from more than 300 North American dealers, not only does the 2016 Dealer Business Outlook & Trends forecast report give you a "from the trenches" look at what dealers see for equipment sales in the year ahead, but it also identifies trends for individual product sales growth. In 48 pages, the report breaks out the dealers' 2016 outlook by country, by region, by the equipment brand and by the size of their dealership. Learn more.
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