[Video] 2023’s Must-Know Agtech Trends

North America’s best precision dealers are already seeing the benefits of early cooperation with agtech companies that offer the technology and services that customers want. This classroom highlights cutting-edge technologies, farming-as-a-service, and the technologies and agtech companies to watch in 2023. Come with questions about how you and suppliers can work together, and also how to evaluate the many new entrants arriving each new year.

A 12-year veteran of 34-store John Deere dealer RDO Equipment, Tony Kramer has worked in various roles with most of his focus on precision ag. As an agronomist, Kramer connects agronomics with the equipment RDO and John Deere have to offer, while leveraging data collection, existing and emerging technologies, various farming practices, and education. RDO holds the unique distinction of being selected by an independent panel of judges as a Most Valuable Dealership by Precision Farming Dealer and a Dealership of the Year by Farm Equipment. 

Independent precision dealer David McGavin is one of the founders of Precision Seeding Solutions, Australia’s premiere dealer for precision seeding products. He has over 35 years of broadacre farming experience and industry leadership in fostering farming advances. 

Dave Krog is the CEO and co-founder of Salin 247, an Iowa- based operation developing small- scale, lightweight and autonomous farm equipment. Salin 247 current- ly offers an autonomous 4-row no-till planter through a farming-as-a-service model with more applications and farm trials in the works for 2023.