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In Memoriam

The Camps: Couple's Partnership Endured to the End

November 21, 2019

Don and Izetta Camp, husband and wife of 67 years and the heads of a well-known and successful agricultural operation in Bakersfield, died last week, four days apart.

Our Dealer Story Podcast

[Podcast] Our Dealer Story: Kern Machinery

In the episode of the Farm Equipment podcast, “Our Dealer Story” brought to you by HBS Systems, we sat down with second generation owner Clayton Camp, along with his son Clay Camp and his daughter Katie Camp Panici during World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif.

July 23, 2019 | Posted in Dealer Succession, Dealer News

Conversations in Ag

Agriculture Equipment Dealers & Manufacturers Collaborating to Solve Customer Needs

Clayton Camp, President of Kern Machinery and David Rankin, President of Rankin Equipment and Northstar Attachments, discuss the value of the relationship between suppliers and dealers and what makes those relationships work.

By Alan Stenum posted on June 9, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Manufacturer & Dealer Issues

From the Desk of Mike Lessiter

Day in the Life: What Does a Dealer Development Manager Do?

By Mike Lessiter posted on July 24, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Manufacturer & Dealer Issues

One of the fun things about our coverage of the farm equipment business is discovering and sharing how each of the various cogs perform together in the larger “machine.” On each of the Dealership Minds special issues, we’ve had subscribers laugh about how they learned something they didn’t know about the role of a person they’d worked 10 yards away from for a decade, sometimes more.

Free eGuide

Cooperation & Teamwork Build Dealership Success

| Posted in Best Practices

This “Cooperation & Teamwork Build Dealership Success” eGuide shares how you can build a foundation based on customer satisfaction and employee cooperation to grow your operation, and it’s FREE!

Special Report: After the Ink Dries

One Dealership’s ‘Acquisition Journal’

New manager Davin Peterson recalls the first few months following an acquisition — in which he was getting to know both parties.

By Mike Lessiter posted on June 11, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance

Davin Peterson joined California-based Kern Machinery Inc. (KMI) in April 2015 in advance of the acquisition of Hollingsworth Inc., a 3-store John Deere dealer group with stores in Ontario and Burns, Ore., and Weiser, Idaho, that would be renamed Camp Equipment.

Remembering Chris Schott

April 12, 2016 | Posted in Dealer News

We're saddened to report the death of Chris Schott, one of the managers at Kern Machinery, who was featured in our Dealership Minds report in the February 2016 issue of Farm Equipment.

From the Desk of Kim Schmidt

Trust Your Employees to Make Decisions

By Kim Schmidt posted on February 22, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices

For many business owners or even a department managers, letting go of responsibilities and trusting someone else with them can be hard to do. After all if you want something done right, you should do it yourself, right?

Dealership Minds 2016 Overview: Kern Machinery

Adapt and adapt again is this dealership’s mantra as it thrives in California’s highly diverse and rapidly changing ag environment.

By Farm Equipment Staff posted on February 13, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance, Department Management, Dealer News

In the fourth of Farm Equipment’s every-other-year Dealership Minds series, six editors travelled to central California to experience first-hand how a successful dealership — Kern Machinery — operates in a market where agriculture can only be described as “diverse,” “intensive” and “rapidly changing.” It wasn’t that long ago when cotton, potatoes and hay dominated the landscape. Today, vegetables, fruit, grapes and nuts are taking over.

Dealership Minds

When to Know When the CFO Role Is Needed

By Mike Lessiter posted on February 13, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance

Marty Buck, the CFO for Kern Machinery and the other Camp family entities (based in Bakersfield, Calif.), explained to Farm Equipment some of the differences in financial management responsibilities as dealerships grow in scale. He joined Kern 7 years ago, after previously leading financial departments at Unisys and Bolthouse Farms.

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Farm Equipment Videos

Analysts Comment on CNHI CEO's Departure

In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Weasler Engineering, we look at some analyst comments on Scott Wine's departure from CNH Industrial. In the Technology Corner, Noah Newman talks to Pessl Instruments' CEO about the recent investment it received from Lindsay Corp. Also in this episode, dealers and farmers chime in on brand loyalty, air seeder sales forecasts and layoffs at the Racine, Wis., Case IH plant.

Top Directory Listings

Yetter Farm Equipment

Built on 90 years of expertise, Yetter Farm Equipment leads the agriculture industry in designing effective and innovative equipment for residue management, seedbed preparation, precision fertilizer placement, harvest attachments, strip-tillage, and more.

Montag Mfg

Montag is the industry’s innovative leader for precise, accurate metering of fertilizer, seed and other nutrients. The Montag system has become the standard for deep banding of fertilizer. Montag is also pioneering the technology for cover crop seed application. The new Cover Crop+ is able to meter the smallest seed, and can be mounted to tillage implements, combines, plus Hagie sprayers and detasselers.

Finance Scope

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