Rob Zemenchik, marketing manager for crop production equipment at Case IH, discusses the new AccuDrive seed meter cable drive system for new 5 Series Case IH Early Riser planters.
Jacob Bolson works full time in agriculture and leverages that training and experience with Knutson Family Farms, which is operated by his in-laws near Hubbard, Iowa.
Relying on hardware sales alone could endanger sustainability of technology sales for farm equipment dealers.
By all accounts, it’s been a prolonged period of profitability for precision farming dealers, built primarily on sales of hardware products. With disposable income, farm customers flocked to dealerships to add technology to their machinery.
Dusko Bruer, president of A-M-E Manufacturing in Eldora, Iowa, showcases the company's new 16-row, individual drive planter, modified with Raven Industries individual hydraulic drives to allow for individual row variable-rate seeding. He talks about the potential of on the go dual-hybrid seeding capabilities and what that technology could mean for yields and accuracy.
Mike Bland has been around the block a few times with precision farming equipment. More than a decade ago, he and his father, who is now mostly retired, started with a John Deere Brown Box for guidance, then upgraded to a GreenStar 2 controller and they now run with a GS3 unit.
Chris van der Loo, market manager in Trimble's Ag Division - Water Management, announces Trimble's acquisition of RainWave and IQ Irrigation. The acquisitions were made in late August and made public at the 2013 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill.
Heading into 2014, where are your greatest opportunities to grow the dealership’s precision farming business and what are the biggest barriers to increasing profitability?
From technician to service manager to now chief technology officer, Layne Richins has pretty much seen it all in his 20-plus year career with Stotz Equipment. And now he’s at the forefront of implementing AI at the 24-store John Deere dealership.
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