While in-person meetings provide valuable face-to-face contact, the chaotic schedules of precision managers don’t always allow for coordinated sessions. In 2018, a group of John Deere precision farming managers, organized by Phil Moskal from Mid-State Equipment, began communicating via text message to assist each other with troubleshooting in-field problems or trading insight on new products or services.
With many North American dealers heading into the thick of spring planting, more than 9,000 miles away, dealerships in Australia are preparing customers for seeding crops ahead of winter.
So what kind of business climate can we expect in the next 6, 12 or even 18 months? Chances are, it will be more similar to what we are experiencing today than what we did a year ago.
Lance Larsen, precision service coordinator with Agtegra cooperative, shares the company's game plan for securing and training precision interns this spring and summer amid other disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Scaling pre-season spring planting projects is as much an art as it is a science for Lance Larsen, precision service coordinator with Agtegra, a 5,000-plus farmer cooperative based in Aberdeen, S.D., and 2014 Most Valuable Dealership.
I’ve been in business now for over 42 years and have experienced a couple major bumps in the road along that journey. They were different than our current COVID-19 pandemic in some ways, but the impact on leadership had a lot of similar characteristics.
When you integrate a solution, two events can happen: either the solution works well together and you reduce a lot of risk for the customer, or you become part of the customer’s fabric. You can do software integration or data integration.
Having the right tools in the field and in the dealership are essential to advancing customer communication and improving the overall service experience.
Anticipation can be a frustrating and ambiguous objective when it comes to forecasting the when and how the next ag tech innovation will influence a dealership’s precision farming business.
On the cusp of spring planting, dealerships are facing the dilemma of accepting the new reality of social distancing and self-quarantine, or taking advantage of the tools and talent they have to continue delivering high-quality service to farm customers.
Cross-training multiple departments within a dealership to troubleshoot simple precision farming problems for customers provides opportunities for sales, parts and even service teams to invest in the objectives and outcomes of the precision part of the business.
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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