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14th Annual Awards Program Recognizes Industry’s Top Dealers

Reynolds Farm Equipment and Greenland Equipment earned the industry’s top honors as Farm Equipment’s 2018 Dealership of the Year.
By Farm Equipment Staff Report posted on July 12, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance
If the number of nominees for this year’s Dealership of the Year is any indication, dealers are beginning to recover from the ag economy downturn and feeling more confident about their businesses.
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‘What? So What? Now What?’ Identifying & Adapting to Trends in Your Market

Consultant David Parker encourages dealers to go through the exercise of identifying trends in their marketplace, how those trends are going to impact their business and how they need to respond.
By Kim Schmidt posted on July 10, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance, Department Management
There’s no doubt that the ag market is changing. Whether it’s growing use of equipment leases, farms consolidating, farmers retiring, “new” buyers turning to used equipment, or some other trend, every dealer is facing a different market than they have in years past.
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Conversations in Ag

Farmer Steve Berger Discusses the Future of Agriculture

Steve Berger, a fourth-generation grain and hog producer in southeast Iowa, sat down with Ken Zuckerberg, then a senior research analyst in New York with Rabobank. The conversation provided Zuckerberg, who sees the industry from the perspective of a financial analyst, a chance to go eyeball-to-eyeball with a person in the trenches farming every day in Berger, a 2016 No-Till Innovator of the Year. The talk happened in the lobby at the 2018 National No-Tillage Conference in Louisville.
By Mike Lessiter posted on June 9, 2018 | Posted in Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance
Steve Berger, a fourth-generation grain and hog producer in southeast Iowa, sat down with Ken Zuckerberg, then a senior research analyst in New York with Rabobank. The conversation provided Zuckerberg, who sees the industry from the perspective of a financial analyst, a chance to go eyeball-to-eyeball with a person in the trenches farming every day in Berger, a 2016 No-Till Innovator of the Year. The talk happened in the lobby at the 2018 National No-Tillage Conference in Louisville.
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Top Tips to Get Your Service Department Performing at Its Highest

Bob Clements shares his knowledge on how to bring your dealership’s service department to a high performing level.
By Kayla Urban posted on April 7, 2018 | Posted in Operations & Finance, Department Management
Often times, dealer-principals and managers have difficulty fully understanding their service department. This leaves owners plagued with questions about how to solve problems that relate to the bottom line. Often a deeper look is required, along with an additional understanding of what is important to profits and efficiency.
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