With nowhere for their product to go, many dairies have been forced to dump their milk. Dairy farmers make up a significant portion of Messick’s customer base. Seeing their customers struggle, staff at the 5-location dealership wondered if there was anything they could do.
Jordan Kite, Equipment Asset Manager for new and used equipment for Agri-Service, is in his third week of working from home because of COVID-19. Typically in his role, Kite regularly travels among Agri-Service’s 9 locations. Now, he’s relegated to his home office.
There’s no break in the action for farmers whose work feeds the world even in the midst of pricing downturns and a rigid infrastructure unable to adjust to shifts in demand.
Karlen grows peas, lentils, corn, soybeans, winter wheat and spring wheat. Karlen says he saw what was happening in China back in January and February and has tried to plan ahead to alleviate his concerns for his crops.
Visiting with Pete Youngblut, founder and sole proprietor of Youngblut Ag, a precision farming dealership in Dysart, Iowa, it’s immediately clear that his primary focus is on preparing customers for planting — because he has to — regardless of the circumstances. I caught up with Youngblut in the middle of a hydraulic steering installation on a Case IH MX180 tractor the afternoon of Monday, April 6.
Heritage Tractor was among the first John Deere dealerships in the country to invest in Sedona Technologies’ online customer portal in January 2018, in what became the dealership’s “Virtual Parts Counter.”
Farm Equipment caught up with Bob Doran, owner of Doran Distribution Services, Mount Horeb, Wis. today to gain a perspective of recent events in farm equipment — from the distributor’s seat.
In these strange times we’re in these days with the Coronavirus, Farm Equipment asked 4-Store President/CEO Shawn Skaggs, Livingston Machinery, to keep a 1-day journal on Wednesday, April 1, the dealership's first day of having two of its locations closed to customers while still remaining open for business.
In these strange times we’re in these days with the Coronavirus, Farm Equipment asked 4-Store Dealer Principal Leo Johnson, Johnson Tractor (Dealership of the Year Alum), to keep a 1-day journal on Monday, March 30.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we take a look at the preliminary results of the 2024 Ag Equipment Intelligence Outlook & Trends report.
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