Patience plays into any precision farming manager’s profile. Whether with customers, manufacturers or direct reports, the ability to calmly and confidently problem-solve, often under pressure, is a prerequisite for the position.

Nick Rust has an idea. Actually, he has a lot of them. But inspiration is an expectation for the longest tenured member of H&R Agri-Power’s precision farming team.

With career experience at both a large equipment dealership and now as a staff agronomist for precision dealership Vantage Northwest in Burley, Idaho, Dillon Bingham has perspective on how both dealership models approach agronomic services.

This past year, perhaps even more so than the last few, solutions were in high demand on farms, serving as a reminder for some dealerships and waking others to the significance of selling and supporting a systematic approach to ag technology.

The 2020 recipient of Precision Farming Dealer’s eighth annual Most Valuable Dealership is RDO Equipment Co., based in Fargo, N.D. In total, 18 U.S. and Canadian dealerships including large and small farm equipment dealership groups with precision departments, independent precision operations and co-ops were nominated by their farm customers, precision equipment suppliers and their own employees.