It was 15 years ago this summer that Farm Equipment’s Dealership of the Year (DOY) edition made its debut. Revisiting the collection of articles on these Alumni Group Members over this period provides an interesting timestamping of growth in the size of leading dealer operations
After comparing all of the nominees, the judges made their decision and the 2020 Farm Equipment Dealerships of the Year is AgriVision Equipment, a 17-store John Deere dealership based in Pacific Junction, Iowa.
In the last 3 years AgriVision Equipment has expanded from 10 locations to 17, reworked its management structure, implemented a technician recruitment program and built 2 new facilities, all while responding to devastating flooding.
This year’s EDA Dealer-Manufacturer Relations Report showed shortline manufacturers score higher on average than full-line manufacturers, as well as beating the average of all combined manufacturers on the survey.
The marketing manager for LandPro, a 20-store John Deere dealership based in New York, was at the John Deere annual sales meeting 7 years ago when she encountered the manufacturer’s configuration tool.
Technology is a “Force Multiplier” for your dealership. The force multiplier concept comes from the military but to explain it simply, think of a hammer. A hammer amplifies your effort to produce more output.
It’s a summer of testing and experimentation across a broad area of Russian farmland. This season major players in the nation’s agricultural industry are field-testing harvest automation based on combines equipped with artificial intelligence and on-board monitors.
In my last article, I wrote about the importance of using the used equipment/remarketing manager to understand the current market conditions and outside influencers. Below are the three functions of Pillar One, the Centralized Appraisal Process, that I find most important.
After comparing all of the nominees, the judges made their decision and the 2020 Farm Equipment Dealerships of the Year is AgriVision Equipment, a 17-store John Deere dealership based in Pacific Junction, Iowa.
This year’s EDA Dealer-Manufacturer Relations Report showed shortline manufacturers score higher on average than full-line manufacturers, as well as beating the average of all combined manufacturers on the survey.
Executive editor Kim Schmidt checking in from Farm Equipment headquarters with an update on 2025 Dealership Minds Summit set for July 29-30 in Iowa City.
The program is out. Check it out at DealershipMindsSummit.com.
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