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Before I clock out for the weekend, I want to take some time to reflect on our Precision Farming Dealer Summit, which took place in St. Louis last week.
This year marks the first-ever conference under the PTx brand, encompassing both Precision Planting and PTx Trimble brands to feature next-generation technologies for water management, autonomy planting and spraying.
The manufacturing sector is actively trying to raise awareness of the growing shortage of skilled workers in the U.S. as the nation’s aging workforce is retiring and its birthrate continues to decline.
Effective use of AI depends on good training. Staff need to know what counts as proper and improper use, and they also need to learn how to “prompt” AI in a meaningful way.
The most valuable lessons occur in the field. That’s the big takeaway I got from my conversation with Matt Schneider, who’s in his third year of an internship program with Wisconsin John Deere dealer Riesterer & Schnell.
Noah Newman and Kim Schmidt break down everything dealers can expect to learn at the conference, Jan. 5-6 in St. Louis, and also share news about projected attendance, speakers, general sessions, classrooms and networking opportunities.
Following the principles regarding human interaction and organization, the unique size of the Precision Farming Dealer Summit introduces and exposes you to ALL the best of the best ideas and trends in precision ag.
The 11th annual Precision Farming Dealer Summit in downtown St. Louis is now less than 9 weeks away. Registrations are pacing more than 50% ahead of last year at this same time – and on pace for an all-time record that will surely be SOLD OUT!
A large and increasing number of technical schools, community colleges and national skill-based programs are working diligently to attract the next wave of precision ag talent through bachelor’s and associate’s degree programs and technical certifications.
We saw a lot of great stuff here at the Precision Farming Dealer Summit this week, and right now here in the Technology Corner, I want to highlight some very interesting stuff that Professor John Fulton from the Ohio State covered during one of his keynote presentations, just about some of the top takeaways that he saw recently at Agritechnica.
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