While it seems irrelevant, space weather and solar activity should be a topic of conversation since it can disrupt technology used in agriculture, says Rebecca Bishop, the principal scientist at the Aerospace Corporation.
Early on in my Day in the Cab visit with Pete Kopriva, precision farming specialist at Case IH dealer J.J. Nichting, he said the amount of phone calls he was getting had “really died down” since the previous week.
Swiderski Equipment’s precision farming department required postseason planter inspections, helping farmers get precious time back that would have otherwise been lost to extensive maintenance during growing season.
“This year we decided to go full force with the planter inspections because of all the failures we were seeing during the growing season,” says Abby Weltzien, service & parts manager of Swiderski’s precision farming department in Mosinee. “We wanted to drive home the importance of it to the customers and help educate them on the issues they could run into if they don’t fix certain problems with their planter.”
From adding technology-specific product specialists to ineffective remote support, dealers from across the globe share the best and worst precision practices tried in the last 2 years.
We asked Precision Farming Dealer readers to share the best and worst precision agriculture-related idea, practice, technology, etc., implemented at their dealership in the last 2 years and explain what went well or what went wrong.
Taking a one-size-fits-all approach to customers (and employees) will likely leave you frustrated and those you work with dissatisfied. The goal of this article is to help you better understand the differences between the generations you serve — and employ — why they matter, and how you can use that information to build a better business.
In honor of the Inaugural Precision Specialist Week celebration, we collected these tributes from members of the ag community to recognize all of the hard work and dedication of those making today's precision farming systems possible.
“The service department is the backbone, but the parts department is the blood that flows through the body,” says Bob Clements, president of Bob Clements International.
To make precision products and services more accessible for farm customers and available for specialists, Phil Moskal, Integrated Solutions Manager with Mid-State Equipment explains the benefits of centralizing the dealership’s customer meetings and precision inventory at their Watertown, Wis., location.
Here in the Technology Corner today, we’re talking about the PTx OutRun autonomous platform — a retrofit kit that enables autonomous grain cart, and now more recently, tillage operations.
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