With accountability and profitability intertwined to the success of a precision business, Van Wall Equipment Integrated Solutions Manager Scott Meldrum drills down to 3 annual major department goals — billable hours, equipment sales and an engaged acre goal — to provide a focused outline for the team to achieve.
For Don Van Houweling, owner of Van Wall Equipment, trust in his precision team comes from a combination of identifying opportunities and accepting accountability. He views precision as a dealership-wide investment to advance the profitability of the entire business — sales, service, parts and precision.
Reliability, initiative and communication are key traits Van Wall Equipment employs within its precision farming department. Chris Lander, Applications Product Specialist, outlines the structure and in-sync relationships needed to ensure a successful, motivated department.
The ability to provide an all-encompassing precision service program to customers was a driver of Van Wall Equipment’s Solutions 360 platform. Integrated Solutions Manager Scott Meldrum details the how the program provides data-driven analysis of a customer’s operation to include data integrity, data management, equipment optimization, agronomic recommendations and risk management.
As opportunities arise to broaden precision sales and service, Van Wall Equipment worked with Iowa State University to develop an advanced turf sprayer and has also expanded a robust crop insurance business. Brian Titus, Integrated Solutions Specialist, Van Wall Equipment, breaks down the benefits of both ventures and how they contribute to strengthening the precision team’s reputation.
For nearly a decade, Van Wall Equipment has offered agronomic services to customers, to complement ag technology and farm equipment sales. Integrated Solutions Manager Scott Meldrum explains the dealership’s scope and strategy for delivering these services to customers and how it translates to real return on investment.
Benchmarking the profitability of a precision business is deeply tied to the reliability and accountability of employees. Van Wall Equipment COO Mike Van Houweling shares some of the dealership’s methods and metrics they utilize to ensure precision expectations are clearly communicated and met.
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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