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Precision Farming Dealer Summit 2021 Recap

Preparing Your Dealership to Sell & Service Autonomous Equipment

Two dealers provide insight into how dealerships should plan for the future and an autonomous equipment fleet.

Autonomy is on the horizon for the ag equipment industry. Between John Deere’s 2019 driverless tractor concept and Raven Industries accepting preorders for its Autonomous AutoCart, the reality of farmers purchasing and utilizing autonomous equipment is only growing.


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Precision Farming Dealer Summit 2021 Recap

Manage the Minutia of a Precision Business to Achieve Measurable Growth

Whether rethinking precision priorities and protocols or setting definable performance goals, starting small, but thinking big is essential to expansion.

Paperwork, procedures and performance measurements may be considered necessary evils in the day-to-day workflow of a precision business, but done right, they provide invaluable insights into how to improve operational efficiency in a relationship-driven industry.


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Precision Farming Dealer Summit 2021 Recap

Nobody Knows It All, but It Pays to Have a Lifeline

Precision peer groups can provide a valuable resource for problem solving, identifying trends, blowing off steam and relationship building.

During the 2021 Precision Farming Dealer Summit, a group of leaders from the precision ag industry gathered to participate in a panel on their experiences participating in a peer group and how that network offered them a way to vet new ideas with developing products and services and employee management.


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Getting Ahead of Early Order Opportunities to Avoid Last-Minute Anxiety, Delays

Feeling the pressure of trying to fulfill parts orders prior to spring planting, dealers are proactively planning revisions to how they stock and sell pre-season equipment.

With wrenches turning in service bays in preparation for spring planting, dealers and farmers are well into their annual routine of row unit maintenance, seed meter calibration and prescription loading. 


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Helping New Precision Ag Specialists Hit the Ground Running

Taking initiative, staying engaged and knowing where to look for answers are key lessons for new precision ag specialists.
It takes a while for new precision ag specialists to really earn their keep around a dealership. Depending on the scenario, it could easily be 6 months before a dealership begins getting value out of a new precision employee, and up to 5 years before that “new” precision specialist is a master of their craft.
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Don’t Rely on Rearview Success to Drive Precision Prosperity of the Present

Three past Most Valuable Dealerships share strategic successes and challenges they’ve overcome to increase profitability and performance.
The success of a dealership’s precision farming business is a puzzle with many pieces — employee-customer relations, technological innovation, flexibility and the ability to adapt to unforeseen challenges all play a part.
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Redefining the Dollars & Sense Approach to Farm Business Management of the Future

From on- and off-farm revenue diversification, equipment sharing and a renewed reliance on data-driven decision making, the next generation farm operation will require an entrepreneurial mentality.
When it comes to the evolution of farming, it’s been said that the pace of change has never been so fast and change will never be this slow again.
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