The group of precision farming professionals who participated in the roundtable covered a lot of ground, but a few key takeaways stood out. “The majority of our time was spent discussing optimization packages, specifically proactive optimization packages,” says Jayme Paquin, general manager of Reichhardt Electronic Innovations, who moderated the roundtable.
Conventional wisdom says that when wholegoods sales go down, parts sales go up. Or does it? Earlier this summer Don Van Houweling, owner of Van Wall Equipment in Iowa, told me contrary to popular belief, that’s not actually true.
“In terms of enterprise operations, I keep us all on the same track with planning, projects and key objectives coming up,” says Charlie Moe, aftermarket manager for Kern Machinery, in describing his role at the dealership.
Charlie Moe, corporate aftermarket manager with Kern Machinery of Bakersfield, Calif., talks about how the John Deere Ag Tech Program convinced him to invest some time in seeking out opportunities go out to area high schools to speak to juniors and seniors about careers in the ag industry. The 54-part 2016 Farm Equipment Dealership Minds video series is sponsored by Charter Software.
The "Wow" factor of the unit is that it comes with the farmer's choice of a fully-programmable joystick. The joystick can be completely programmed through the virtual terminal Reichhardt virtual terminal.
In his general session presentation at the 2015 Dealership Minds Summit in Cincinnati in January, Birkey’s Farm Store President/CEO Mike Hedge also covered service productivity issues and the high cost of unapplied labor most farm equipment dealerships experience. And he encouraged dealers to start looking at service techs through a lens of inventory units.
How is your dealership adapting to an increase in factory-installed precision hardware on new farm equipment, and how is this impacting aftermarket precision sales?
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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