Returning from last week’s National Farm Machinery Show, many of the precision product suppliers I spoke with shared a generally optimistic view on the next 10 months of 2017.
It’s no secret that as the precision hardware market continues to mature, profit margins are shrinking for many dealers who are selling into a saturated and increasingly competitive market.
A number of poultry growers have filed suit against Tyson Foods, Perdue Farms, and other poultry integrators alleging that growers’ production data was shared among integrators to depress grower payments. This is the first case where farmers’ ag data is the center of the lawsuit.
I can vividly remember walking through the aisles of ag shows a couple years ago and seemingly stopping every few booths to grab a business card and a brief conversation with an ambitious entrepreneur looking to stake a claim in the ag tech industry.
A couple of columns ago, I shared an anecdote about how a farm equipment dealership’s owner recently dealt with a tricky precision employment situation. Dealers would prefer to add and retain qualified specialists rather than lose them.
The clouds that house America’s agricultural data are going to see a lot shifting in 2017. The ag data platform space has been on a constant growth trend for the last few years. But all good things must come to an end, and I think 2017 will be the year when farmers demand results to part with their ag data.
Returning from the second Precision Farming Dealer Summit last week in St. Louis, I am slowly sifting through a notebook of takeaways accumulated during formal sessions, roundtable discussions and hallway conversations.
Writing this column at the midway point of our second Precision Farming Dealer Summit in St. Louis, onboarding millennial specialists, implementing a reliable customer relations management system and building automatic renewals into precision service plans were a few early highlights.
Reflecting on the holidays, it was another blur of wrapping paper, egg nog and pine needles. Surviving the season is always dependent upon prioritizing time among immediate family, friends and relatives.
We had a front-row seat to the launch of AEF’s Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN) at AGRITECHNICA a few weeks ago, which promises to ease the process of data sharing for farmers and dealers.
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