While tallying up the poll questions we asked dealers on the Farm Equipment Dealer 100, it came as no surprise that the area where the most dealers (70%) planned to hire was technicians.
As our editorial team recently gathered intel from the 100 biggest dealerships in the U.S. and Canada, many CEOs and managers identified technicians as their greatest employment area of need for 2024.
Last month, I stopped by Nebraska Equipment, a Case IH dealer based in Seward, Neb., to discuss hiring in the precision industry with sales manager Kenny Pekarek. The timing of the visit was fitting, as the dealership was just one week into hiring its first precision intern, not coincidentally during the heart of planting season.
The manager of Agri-Service’s separately-branded precision farming arm shares tips for their top-performing customer training sessions — ones that farmers don’t want to miss.
Talking to industry people about their thoughts on customer training, one response was that customer events are a “necessary evil;” that customers expect it, so we do it. Another said, “We do them, but we don’t feel like we get anything in return from them.” And another said, “Our customers don’t remember anything that we teach them so why do them — what’s the point?”
Staying limber in terms of precision workflow during the busy season has its merit. But for Oregon Trail Equipment’s AMS manager, Luke Bennett, the payback goes beyond the obvious.
When Precision Farming Dealer caught up with Luke Bennett, AMS manager of Oregon Trail Equipment in Beatrice, Neb., in mid-May, he was embroiled in a drawn out, busy planting season.
Derik Geitgey (left) and Brandon Kaple, sales and service technicians with Ag Info Tech in Mount Vernon, Ohio, share their philosophy on building long-term business relationships with customers and why they pride themselves on availability and supporting the products they sell.
Students in the region will have an opportunity to enroll in a unique curriculum this fall at Lake Region State College’s Dakota Precision Ag Center – a two-year precision ag degree.
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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