This week I was very thankful to have an autosteer system while performing planting especially since it is always so hard to tell how far away from the previous pass you are.
When Joey Hanson wanted to get into strip-till on the family farm in southeastern South Dakota, he and his brother had a hard time justifying the equipment cost. “Strip till units are expensive, and the only way we could justify it would be to do some custom work with the unit,” he says.
We asked dealers: How are precision farming specialists at your dealership using mobile apps as business tools and what features/new apps would be useful for sales and service of technology in the future?
Creative thinking is a mandatory skill for most precision farming specialists. This applies not only to troubleshooting a technical problem in the field, but also seeking out new sales opportunities.
Spending time during the last few weeks at a handful of industry events, I had the chance to take the pulse of both precision dealers and manufacturers on their market outlook for 2015.
Lee Eichelberger, integrated solutions specialist with Martin Sullivan in Lexington, Ill., shares the dealership's objectives with offering pre-season precision customer training events and clinics and the opportunity they present to "pre-sell" farmers on new technology.
With more and more farm equipment coming equipped with precision technology, dealers need to adapt their sales strategy to include service plans and data management.
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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