Twice in the last month I’ve come across two businesses with a “no a@$h@&*” policy. In both instances the employee in mention was a high-performing, high revenue-generating salesperson.
I have to admit that in nearly 20 years of covering the business and as a business owner myself, there’s a heaping helping of skepticism on the subject of the viability of the company store.
Israeli startup has patented a significant advance in soil monitoring technology capable of providing continual measurements of soluble nitrates found in soil porewater
Have you ever seen the cockpit of a commercial airplane and noticed the instrument cluster that the captain and co-pilot monitor? Most commercial planes have over 100 instrument clusters or dials to guide the pilots’ actions.
Two weeks ago, 2 or my 3 sons and I hopped in the truck to see my uncle and cousins in Michigan and go back and see the land settled by our British ancestors in 1853.
With the CDK-e-Emphasys merger in May further reducing the independent software choices for dealers, our “deep dive” into software for our next edition is most timely.
Let me start by saying the COVID supply chain disruption was an absolute gift from the equipment gods because it helped clear out old used equipment. I am sure my statement will shock and astound everyone reading this. The perception that less equipment was sold during 2021-2023 is wrong.
This “naked pursuit of scale” and quest for market share sounds familiar. Farm machinery manufacturers and their dealers have dealt with this push-pull reality for decades (at least since I started covering the industry in 2004).
This blog was posted in response to Frank Lessiter’s article, “133 Right-to-Repair Concerns -- Growers Get Loud,” that was a follow-up to a unique content project between Lessiter Media’s farm equipment and grower divisions. To view the original work, click here to review the arguments for dealers/manufacturers (Executive Editor Kim Schmidt) and growers (Grower Division Editorial Chairman Frank Lessiter).
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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