3 dealers outline the training programs, customer service strategies and financial benchmarks they use to effectively manage their precision departments.
Whether your precision team consists of 2 people or 20, a commitment to excellent customer service, a solid training program and measurable expense benchmarks will put your precision department on a path to profitability.
Among your precision specialists, who has the most credibility with growers when it comes to data and technology? Eric Mensen, integrated solutions specialist at Van Wall Equipment in Story City and Nevada, Iowa, says older growers often trust the youngest precision specialists immediately when it comes to technology.
As they get ready to commercialize their product, the team at Sabanto maps out the customer’s journey with multi-colored post-it notes on a white board. Vice President of Product Cory Spaetti explains how the system works.
As we’ve all learned, the skillset possessed by a really good precision ag technology specialist is hard to find. They are in high demand and thus expensive, and they take extensive training to develop.
Ryan Nell shares perspectives for precision dealers on how he sets auto-steer lines in a strip-till system and manages nutrients with accuracy on his corn and soybeans.
Beaver Dam, Wis., strip-tiller Ryan Nell offers perspectives for dealers and guidance for first-time strip-tillers on maintaining RTK auto-steer consistency in the field and on the headlands when planting corn and soybeans on his 2,200-acre operation, which he runs with his father Ron.
Sabanto Vice President of Product Cory Spaetti pulls up the mission control site on his computer and shows how an operator, with the click of a mouse, can control their autonomous tractors from anywhere in the world. He walks us through the process of making a mission plan with the program.
Sabanto Vice President of Product Cory Spaetti covers the nuts and bolts of the Sabanto autonomy system and shows what differentiates it from other products on the market.
Mass layoffs at major tech firms have opened the talent pipeline for Illinois-based Deere & Co. — the world's largest tractor maker — and rivals who are eager to add tech workers to their payrolls as they expand into autonomous tractors, mining trucks, and other smart farming technology.
The 2023 recipient of Precision Farming Dealer’s 11th annual Most Valuable Dealership is LandPro Equipment, founded in 2017 with 20 locations across western New York, eastern Ohio and northwest and central Pennsylvania.
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.
DigiFarm VBN is a proven leader in providing RTK Correction Services across the Midwest and beyond, via cellular based RTK network. We have been in business since 2011 working with farmers, Ag retailers, and precision Ag dealers
We leverage our years of experience and industry knowledge to deliver solutions that keep you moving forward. For more than 30 years, our team of entrepreneurs and technicians have focused on understanding the hurdles you face. Then we brainstorm possibilities. Whether it’s offering a replacement part, repairing parts that aren’t working or creating custom solutions for your challenge. We’re experts in ag equipment electronic parts and systems. But more importantly, we make connections to keep your operation moving forward.
Hexagon is the global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications.