The point here is that correction, and inspiration, doesn’t just have to come from the boss. In fact, a good culture will deal with it before any managers have to get their hands dirty.
Sitting in the stands at Camp Randall Stadium (the home of the Wisconsin Badgers) watching an ag machinery OEM advertise to a crowd of mostly suburban folk makes me “see red.”
As more industry comments flowed in on the recent Farm Equipment blogs on the filmed standoff between an Illinois farmer and its John Deere dealer AWH LLC, another Deere dealer doggedly chased me down.
It’s a pleasure to introduce you to my dad, Frank Lessiter, and what I would call the 5th child in our family, his No-Till Farmer (NTF) publication. I was 3 years old when Dad put out the first edition, and I can’t recall a time when NTF wasn’t a part of the family.
The average professional, if they’re lucky, might be able to cite one mentor in their life. I’ve been blessed with several who decided that developing me, advising me and correcting me was worth their effort.
Jeff Barnes, Greenway Equipment’s Precision Ag Manager who oversees a group of 41 staffers in Field Teams, Support Center and data analysts, was asked about how the Arkansas-based dealership, the 14th largest farm machinery dealer (and 10th largest John Deere dealer) and its precision business evolved since his arrival 14 years ago.
I just finished a cover story article for the June 2024 edition of Farm Equipment on a dramatic “color conversion” story at Intermountain New Holland (Twin Falls, Idaho). The 2-store dealership earned a chance with a custom harvester on one New Holland swather, and quickly parlayed it into 6 units.
Last week, Leo Johnson (recently retired chairman of Johnson Tractor, Janesville, Wis.) and I took our mutual friend and Farm Equipment inaugural Hall of Fame class inductee Paul Wallem to lunch.
This phrase refers to a tendency of militaries to engage an opponent in the same way as the “last war fought.” With generations often passing between large-scale conflicts, changing global dynamics means the past may have less relevance to the present.
I tagged along with the precision crew at John Deere dealer Riesterer and Schnell in eastern Wisconsin last week. Among the several takeaways from the visit, they told me there’s one precision tool in particular that’s really paying off for farmers right now.
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