RDO Equipment’s Director of International Sales, Olga Hall, and Will Sawyer, lead economist on animal protein with CoBank, discuss the challenges — and opportunities — the global economy has for agriculture from African Swine Fever to trade disputes and exporting used equipment overseas. The two sat down to talk during a break at the Moving Iron Summit, where Sawyer was a speaker.

Ag author and podcast host Damian Mason spoke at the 2019 Moving Iron Summit in Nashville. Following his presentation, Mason sat with Chip Senf of C&B Operations, a 38-store John Deere dealership with locations in 6 states, to dissect some of Mason’s presentation — including how the future of U.S. agriculture may mean growing less corn.

Former teacher Richard Dugan and Ryan Goertzen, a former college president and current vice president of maintenance workforce development for AAR Corp., a global aerospace company based in Chicago with 60 locations worldwide, sat down during the Equipment Dealers Assn. 2019 Workforce Development Summit in Louisville, Ky., to compare notes on their challenges — and successes — in hiring technicians.

Anne Salemo and Kathryn Hesebeck have more in common than they first thought sitting down together in Johnson Tractor’s Janesville, Wis., store. Both women came into the farm equipment industry under the wings of their fathers into the family business and both are mothers in a male dominated business. Salemo, CEO of Charter Software, and Hesebeck, a third generation salesperson for Johnson Tractor, a 4-store Case IH dealership, discuss the advantages of being a woman in the dealership business and transitioning a business from one generation to the next.

For the first time, Farm Equipment brought a farm equipment dealer — Dan Scheuers — to an automotive dealer for a candid discussion of the 2 worlds.