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.
Changing farming practices, including the trend toward concentrated production on specialized operations, along with others such as wider use of irrigation and growing adoption of precision agriculture technologies, have allowed the farm sector to increase total output by nearly 50% over the past three decades, even as resources used in farming declined.
20th annual gathering of innovative no-tillers in St. Louis offers valuable management tips from more than 40 speakers over 4 information-filled days in January 2012
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, Jason Webster, commercial agronomist with PTI Farm, breaks the results of PTI Farm’s 2024 HIgh Speed Planting Corn Study.
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.
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