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How I Trained 18 New Stores in the Middle of Planting Season

Travis Kiesel will share Hutson's keys to success during insightful kickoff session at 2024 Precision Farming Dealer Summit
November 22, 2023 | Posted in Best Practices, Precision Ag Sales & Service
When Kentucky-based Hutson Inc. expanded into Michigan, its new stores and staff were significantly behind the curve on the technology and the “mainstreamed” goals of the business. In short order, Travis Kiesel and the Hutson team needed to recruit new employees and properly train the team in Michigan.
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Dealer Principal Turned DMS Provider Talks Tech & Customer Service

Sean McLaughlin, who parlayed his computer science expertise into DMS company Flyntlok, sees connectivity as the key to the customer experience
By Art Aiello posted on November 22, 2023 | Posted in Best Practices

While many suppliers can trace its history to a farmer building a better piece of equipment, Sean McLaughlin’s career took a different, albeit parallel, path: an ag equipment dealer who built a better piece of technology.


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55 Years of Farm Equipment

[Video] Farm Equipment's Continued Growth

November 10, 2023 | Posted in Best Practices
In part 3 of this video series brought to you by AgDirect, Farm Equipment Editor/Publisher Mike Lessiter, Retired Executive Editor Dave Kanicki and Executive Editor Kim Schmidt discuss the various ways Farm Equipment has grown and introduced new products over the years, including the special Dealership Minds issues, the Farm Equipment Sourcebook and the creation of the Precision Farming Dealer brand.
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55 Years of Farm Equipment

[Video] Farm Equipment Expands with New Products

November 10, 2023 | Posted in Best Practices
In part 3 of this video series brought to you by AgDirect, Farm Equipment Editor/Publisher Mike Lessiter, Retired Executive Editor Dave Kanicki and Executive Editor Kim Schmidt discuss the various ways Farm Equipment has grown and introduced new products over the years, including the special Dealership Minds issues, the Farm Equipment Sourcebook and the creation of the Precision Farming Dealer brand.
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55 Years of Farm Equipment

[Video] Establishing the Dealership of the Year Program

November 10, 2023 | Posted in Best Practices
It didn't take long after Lessiter Media acquired Farm Equipment for it to establish the annual Dealership of the Year program. In this video, brought to you by AgDirect, Editor/Publisher Mike Lessiter, Executive Editor Kim Schmidt and Retired Executive Editor Dave Kanicki discuss how the program got off the ground and how it has evolved over the years, as well as the impact it has had on them personally and the magazine.
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55 Years of Farm Equipment

[Video] Farm Equipment Lands at Lessiter Media

November 10, 2023 | Posted in Best Practices
In this video, brought to you by AgDirect, Executive Editor Kim Schmidt sits down with Editor/Publisher Mike Lessiter and retired Executive Editor Dave Kanicki to discuss how Farm Equipment has evolved and grown since Lessiter Media acquired the title in 2005.
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Sinclair Tractor Anniversary Event Raises $600K to Fight Hunger in Three States

Sinclair Tractor representatives Bob and Susan Sinclair and Darian Graff joined Iowa food bank directors in Des Moines Nov. 8 to present a check for $600,000 to fight hunger in three states.
November 10, 2023 | Posted in Best Practices, Dealer News
Source: Food Bank Iowa
When Sinclair Tractor celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, owner Bob Sinclair said employees made it clear they wanted to do something big.
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