Home / Topics / Best Practices

Best Practices
Best Practices RSS Feed RSS

Standard Job Pricing: Getting There

July 18, 2014 | Posted in Best Practices
Developing a standardized job pricing model is an important step in getting dealership employees and customers on the same page. Loren Balzer, director of aftermarket for PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership group in Kansas, talks about the progress the dealership has made in simplifying this process.
Read More

What's in a Name: PrairieLand Partners

July 18, 2014 | Posted in Best Practices
According to Loren Balzer, director of aftermarket for PrairieLand Partners, the "Partners" is an most important part of the dealership's name because it signifies the mutual benefits seen across the dealership's locations and the importance of shared successes.
Read More

Managing By Values - In Practice

July 18, 2014 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management
Amanda Cooper, director of human resources for PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership group in Kansas, talks about the "Managing by Values" initiative. Each store has a "Managing by Values" committee. These committees are made of 3 individuals who are tasked with resolving any values-violations that arise. While the committee makes sure the store manager is informed, it's their responsibility - not the store manager's - to see things through. Through this arrangement, values are "owned" throughout the organization, not just by those with manager titles.
Read More

Industry's Best Dealerships Honored in 10th Annual Dealership of the Year Awards Program

July 15, 2014 | Posted in Best Practices
This year our panel of judges were faced with another strong pool of nominees for the Dealership of the Year. But they made their choices and the 2014 Dealerships of the Year are: PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store network based in Hutchinson, Kan., in the large multi-store operation category; and Godfrey Bros., a single-store dealer located in Jonesville, Mich., in the small-store operation category.
Read More
Img 2778 1

2014 Dealership of the Year Award Winner: PrairieLand Partners

By Mike Lessiter posted on July 15, 2014 | Posted in Best Practices
The 2014 recipient in the large, multi-store category of the Dealership of the Year program — PrairieLand Partners, headquartered in Hutchinson, Kan. — embodies much of what you’d expect from a professionally managed dealership group for the 21st century. Things like decisiveness and objectivity, action plans that groom and test the next generation, and hard discussions about getting people in the right seats on the bus — and moving those who are not.
Read More
101 doy godfrey bros dk 0614

2014 Dealership of the Year Award Winner: Godfrey Bros

By Dave Kanicki posted on July 15, 2014 | Posted in Best Practices
Single-store dealers who handle John Deere farm equipment are becoming a vanishing breed. Kevin Godfrey knows this. He also knows other small Deere dealers who have been squeezed out of the business to make way for the company's "bigger is better" model for its retailers. He's feeling the pressure and understands the push for larger multi-location dealerships isn't going to go away; it's how Deere wants it.
Read More

Top Articles

Current Issue

FE_June_2026_BookWithPages_Curl_art.png

Farm Equipment

Farm Equipment's 100TM
100 North America's Largest Ag Equipment Dealers

View More

Must Read Free Eguides

Download these helpful knowledge building tools

View More

Farm Equipment Videos

View More
Top Directory Listings
A&I-Consumer-Large.png

A&I Products

Since 1980, A&I Products has become a leading manufacturer and wholesale distributor of aftermarket replacement parts for the agricultural, turf, and industrial equipment markets. A&I Products' experience and expertise has greatly contributed to the company's reputation as a top supplier of quality, reasonably priced parts. Founded with roots as a small machine shop and repair facility, the company made the transition by manufacturing new parts to replace those that were identified as commonly needing repair. Throughout the 1980s, the company quickly garnered a reputation for offering quality parts at a reasonable price.

Yetter farm equipment since1930 01

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.
Machinery Scope

Machinery Scope

At Machinery Scope, we believe you deserve the best risk management solutions for your investments in heavy equipment. Since 2013, we have been proud to offer extended warranty, appraisals, and inspections. Machinery Scope is a family-owned business built on our experience in farming and equipment dealerships. We understand your business and provide a personalized and professional level of customer service. Machinery Scope has built a strong warranty product with our customers in mind, offering the same professional level of service from the time you get a quote, through the processing of a claim.
View More