Lessiter Media recently released its new Employment Recruitment Service to offer comprehensive multi-media resources to streamline the ag equipment community’s recruitment process, offering a direct link between dealers and manufacturers and a targeted, engaged, and qualified audience.
Once you find a precision farming technician with some potential, set a clear on-boarding plan and career path to increase the likelihood of retaining a long-term employee.
Finding good employees — and retaining them — is a challenge for all farm equipment dealership departments, but it is particularly challenging for the precision farming department where burnout rates are high.
Diversity, flexibility and hands-on experience are three desirable inclusions a recent graduate looks for in a precision farming job within a dealership.
Kevin Butt, Professor of Agriculture, Ellsworth Community College, Iowa Falls, Iowa: “The biggest thing is for the companies to just be themselves. This is who we are. Don’t try to oversell yourself or make the dealership into something it’s not. Then students or graduates know exactly what they’re getting into and they’re not being promised things you can’t actually offer.
Dealers, farmers and Horsch team members from across the globe gathered in Cottage Grove, Minn., June 18, for the grand opening of the company’s new AgTec building, dubbed “the new heart of Horsch in North America.”
Unverferth is a leading manufacturer and marketer of tillage equipment, pull-type sprayers, fertilizer applicators, hay and grain handling equipment, and agricultural dual and specialty wheels.
For decades, our products have been used and trusted by top golf courses, professional sports fields, and lawn care experts across the country and around the world. Now, we’re bringing that same professional quality to homeowners, so you can achieve pro-level results in your own backyard.
Salford Group began producing tillage equipment in 1978. Over the years Salford grew to include additional product lines for tillage and application with BBI Spreaders (founded in 1991), Valmar Airflo (established in 1977), and AerWay Advanced Aeration (established in 1983). Learn more about the Salford Group here.