Here’s the “Top 4 Tech Trends” editors found impacting the North American precision farming market. For more on what editors saw, heard and experienced in Louisville, visit Precision Farming Dealer’s Facebook and Twitter pages. More coverage will also be shared in video on www.PrecisionFarmingDealer.com.
Agtegra Cooperative Board Vice President Rick Osterday, together with Clemensen, presented a check for $500,000 to SDSU President Dr. Barry Dunn and Dr. Don Marshall, Interim Dean, SDSU College of Agriculture & Biological Sciences.
With all the promising advancements technology is making, there is still one barrier that continues to hinder progress. People. No amount of automation and autonomy can erase the need for human interface, and therein lies technology’s greatest obstacle, says T.J. Stauffer, veteran precision consultant and ag recruiter.
Structure and stability are cornerstones of a profitable precision business. Setting performance expectations of staff, consistently capturing service revenue and avoiding unnecessary inventory are
key to black or red ink.
A quality product may get a customer in the door of your dealership, but it’s service after the sale that keeps them coming back. Exceeding support expectations is a lucrative — yet sometimes elusive — opportunity for precision dealers.
Technology training — both internal and external — can hold as much earning potential as it can headaches. But employee and customer training are essential investments for precision growth during the next 5 years, with more than 98% of dealers citing these areas as priorities in the 2017 Precision Farming Dealer Benchmark Study.
The last few years have seen some dramatic shifts in the ag technology
landscape with companies adjusting objectives to accommodate
farmers’ spending habits. Increasing adoption of precision
farming practices remains a priority within the industry and as
suppliers pivot toward the future, there are lessons to be learned
from the past.
There’s no silver bullet solution to generating recurring revenue from agronomic services. Dealers continue to experiment and evolve their approaches, some by hiring staff agronomists and others collaborating with third-party data management service providers. But what is the most proven pathway to growing precision profits? And how can dealers seamlessly bridge the gap between hardware sales and agronomic services?
This service was developed to help farmers, agronomists and retailers spot field issues caused by planter skips, emergence, insect feeding, poor plant nutrition, crop diseases, weeds, other pests and environmental damage.
We had a front-row seat to the launch of AEF’s Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN) at AGRITECHNICA a few weeks ago, which promises to ease the process of data sharing for farmers and dealers.
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