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All in a Day’s Work: Tractor Fires, Old-Timer Lunch & In-Cab Troubleshooting

By Mike Lessiter posted on April 29, 2024 | Posted in Precision Ag Sales & Service, Dealer Succession

Last week, Leo Johnson (recently retired chairman of Johnson Tractor, Janesville, Wis.) and I took our mutual friend and Farm Equipment inaugural Hall of Fame class inductee Paul Wallem to lunch.

Precision Ag Sales & Service

Service Stress Alleviation Strategies Slash Workweek by 27 Hours

Dealers cut down on burnout with off-season clinics, mandatory planter inspections & mentorship programs

By Noah Newman posted on March 14, 2024 | Posted in Best Practices, Precision Ag Sales & Service

While eliminating service stress during busy season seems almost impossible, there are creative ways to prevent burnout and put valuable hours back on the clock.

Precision Agriculture

OEM Leaders Reveal Precision Vision for Dealers & Customers

AGCO, Case IH & New Holland representatives discuss autonomy, retrofit opportunities & precision business commonalities of their top dealers

By Noah Newman posted on February 8, 2024 | Posted in Precision Ag Sales & Service

The precision ag heads at AGCO, Case IH and New Holland each shared their strategic direction for business at the 2024 Precision Farming Dealer Summit in Indianapolis, Ind.

This Week

Farm Equipment's Best of the Web: Jan. 19, 2024

By Farm Equipment Staff posted on January 19, 2024

Farm Equipment editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great farm machinery industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Dealer Success Academy.

This Week

Farm Equipment's Best of the Web: Dec. 1, 2023

By Farm Equipment Staff posted on December 1, 2023

A Dealer’s Role in NFL History

A trip to the National Football Hall of Fame reinforces how auto dealers learned retail & service best practices from their implement dealer counterparts

By Mike Lessiter posted on October 23, 2023 | Posted in Best Practices

A trip to the National Football Hall of Fame reinforced how the auto world learned how to retail and service customers from its implement dealer counterparts

Dealership Minds Summit Debuts in 2013, ‘Seminal’ Event for Industry

An appetite for best practices & peer problem solving led to an industry-unique ‘dealer-only’ event without the major lines taking notes

By Mike Lessiter posted on September 27, 2023 | Posted in Department Management

It became clear to us by 2012 that dealers wanted more insights than what could be accomplished in our print and web pages alone.

Looking Back: A Recent Retiree’s Perspective on Equipment Industry

A Look Back on Farm Equipment History with: Lars Paulsson, retired vice president, Laforge Systems, Inc., Concord, Calif.

By Lars Paulsson posted on September 22, 2023 | Posted in Best Practices

I can’t speak for 55 years ago. I had then just graduated from high school, but later in life, in the late 70s/early 80s, I had a short stint involved with in-parlor-feeding in the dairy industry, just as electronic recordkeeping started to take off.

Customer Perspective

What Farmers Want from You: More Education & Improved Support

By Noah Newman posted on June 30, 2023 | Posted in Data & Forecasts, Precision Ag Sales & Service

Veteran farmers Jim Leverich of Sparta, Wis., and Keith Wendte of Effingham, Ill., are two early adopters of precision technology.

Precision Specialist Week

Lessiter Media to Celebrate 1st Annual Precision Specialist Week

June 30, 2023 | Posted in Precision Ag Sales & Service, Dealer News

Lessiter Media has announced it will be launching the first-ever Precision Specialist Week on August 13-19, 2023.

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Big Dealer Consolidation Continues in 2024

In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Weasler Engineering, we break down the key takeaways from Ag Equipment Intelligence's newly released 2024 Big Dealer Report. In the Technology Corner, Noah Newman shows us how cover crop planting could be done autonomously. Also in this episode, CNH Industrial reports a drop in ag sales, AGCO combine and application equipment sales are down year-over-year and a UK New Holland factory strike could impact North America.

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