The success of a dealership’s precision farming business is a puzzle with many pieces — employee-customer relations, technological innovation, flexibility and the ability to adapt to unforeseen challenges all play a part.
John Deere is starting year-long relationships with Nori, NVision Ag, Scanit, and Teleo. The year-long program enables testing of innovative technologies with customers and dealers.
In the new 5-part series, The Principles of Dealership Management with Dr. Jim Weber, Farm Equipment Editor/Publisher Mike Lessiter and Dr. Jim Weber discuss dealer management best practices based on Weber’s 40-plus years working with dealers and manufacturers.
Over the last few years when we’ve focused on workforce development — particularly recruiting and training technicians — as a fair amount of focus has been on getting to kids at a younger age or to kids that don’t live on the farm to expose them to the opportunities that exist in agriculture.
This year’s event will deliver the same high-quality content and speakers you’ve come to expect and provide you ample time to consume all of the strategies, advice and knowledge on improving your dealership’s precision business.
Talking with farmers, especially during the last few years about their cropping systems, more are steering the conversation toward other areas of their operation that have allowed them to maintain or increase overall profitability during an extended time of low corn and soybean prices.
Hear from precision dealers on how and when they see autonomous equipment evolving sales and service of farm equipment at the 6th Precision Farming Dealer Summit.
Farm equipment automation is on the minds of precision dealers, whether it’s a tangible reality or far-fetched fantasy within their business. But regardless of the take, it’s hard to ignore the impact the emerging technology will have on the ag industry.
Maximizing the minutes, even during a rainy day, Phil Moskal puts Mid-State Equipment’s customers on an affordable — and incremental — path to precision productivity.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Well, at least a couple of them. It was a cool and dreary day when I rode along with Phil Moskal, then precision farming specialist with Mid-State Equipment in 2013 for the first Day in the Cab profile in this series.
Today, we’re looking at Austria-based Pessl Instruments, an agtech provider operating under the METOS brand. Irrigation equipment manufacturer Lindsay Corporation recently acquired a minority interest in Pessl Instruments following a strategic partnership the 2 companies announced in May 2023.
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.
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.
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.