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33 Tips for Turning Billable Service Into Recurring Precision Revenue
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Three farmers and three precision equipment specialists discuss strategies for anticipating service needs, maximizing sales opportunities and avoiding customer conflict.
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[Technology Corner] Leaftech Ag Launches New Handheld Tissue Analysis Tool
On demand tissue analysis in the field has arrived. Leaftech Ag recently introduced a handheld digital lab that delivers results in less than 3 minutes. Agronomists or farmers can stick a leaf in the tool’s scanner bed and see its nutrient contents on the spot. Founder and CEO John Mascoe shows us how it works.
Case IH Debuts New AFS Furrow Command Technology
Case IH made its presence felt at the National Farm Machinery Show last month, introducing its new AFS Furrow Command technology suite, which includes downforce automation. Case IH seeding marketing manager Trent Nowosad says AFS Furrow Command downforce automation will take down-pressure settings on their Precision Disk Air drills to the next level.
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[Technology Corner] Trimble’s New Advanced Path Planning Technology
The Technology Corner crew is on the road this week, checking in from the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky. We got our first look at several new products, including Trimble’s new advanced path planning technology.
How We Did It Docuseries: 360 Yield Center (part 1)
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.
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Digital Innovation Hubs Incubate European Ag Robotics Culture
Ag-focused Digital Innovation Hubs are just one way Europe is positioning to become a center of agricultural robotic technology. European Union funded projects, such as agROBOfood — a robust consortium of research entities and businesses — are creating collaborative spaces and providing capital to help technology developers apply robotics to the unique challenges of automating agriculture.
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Applying Small Sample Trials to Big Picture Precision Planning
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Precision Ag Dealers Need Resourceful Problem-Solvers
Recruiting and preparing the next generation of precision farming professionals is no simple task. Precision farming experts Calvin Knotts, Redline Equipment, Archbold, Ohio, and Karl Huebner, Hutson, Inc., Mayfield, Ky., share their tips and tricks for finding those up-and-coming precision farming professionals in their midst.
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Shared Values & Vision are Vital to Maintaining Employee Engagement
Tim Norris has learned through experience that one of the best ways to generate employee buy-in and maintain high levels of staff motivation is by cultivating a shared vision.
From the Virtual Terminal
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What the Ag Industry Can Learn from Tesla
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Apple CarPlay Will Soon Control Your Car. Will Apple TractorPlay be Next?
Apple CarPlay is just the tip of the iceberg. Is it inevitable that a major software developer or agricultural OEM will create a CarPlay-like experience for the tractor cab?
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Making the Case for Gamifying Precision Agriculture
We have a lack of gamification in agriculture that could drive dopamine hits and a competitive urge to engage.
Precision Farming Dealer Podcast
[Podcast] New Holland’s New Hay & Forage Precision Products Provide “Good Point of Entry” for Customers
In today’s episode of the Precision Farming Dealer podcast, we go 1-on-1 with Dana Dahms, precision farming associate product marketing manager for CNH Industrial.
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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.
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Planter & Drill Attachments Product Roundup 2023
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