Jordan Batman, BTI (Great Bend, Kan.) 

If you Google the term “workaholic” I am 97% sure that you would find a picture of Jordan Batman. With a background as a Radio Frequency Transmissions Specialist in the Air Force National Guard, Jordan’s passion for technology has shined through his work in precision agriculture.

Raised on a farm in rural central Kansas, he has never known what it means to have a day off. He grew up tending cattle and working fields with his father and younger brother in northern Stafford County and is now putting these skills to use as the Integrated Solutions Specialist for BTI at their Great Bend location. Although the Great Bend store is his “home base” he serves farmers all over central and western Kansas and has traveled as far as Texas to install/trouble shoot equipment for his customers.

Jordan understands that farming is not a Monday-Friday, 8-5, job and has made this abundantly clear to his customers who all have his personal cell phone number. They are repeatedly assured that they can call him any time, day or night, if they have questions or equipment issues they cannot figure out.

More often than not, Jordan is one of the first employees to arrive at the store in the morning and one of the last ones to leave; always making sure the loose ends are tied up before he leaves for the day. If he is unable to find the root of the customer’s issue before leaving for the day, you will find Jordan on our couch late at night with his IPAD trouble shooting from home. Getting his farmers back in the field with equipment running is always his top priority. He understands that not being in the field during those crucial times of the year that can be detrimental to a small farmer and that their livelihood is usually dependent on their equipment working correctly.  

During the summer, you will see Jordan multi-tasking from the sidelines of his daughter’s softball games, coaching third base while trying to help a customer out with minor problems over the phone. At a family event you can catch him talking shop with his uncles and cousins who farm in southwest Kansas; always trying to boost efficiency and increase productivity. Our family vacations are planned around the “busy seasons” to make sure he is available to his customers during the times they need his services most.

Jordan is dedicated not only to his employment at BTI, but to his community. He aims to have his least tech savvy customers understand the technology they are using and the benefits they are gaining from having the systems available to them. Having the systems in place will never be enough for him if his customers do not understand how, and why, they are using them; his educational services are top notch. He, along with his fellow Integrated Solutions Specialists, host several training/educational seminars throughout the year in the areas of Kansas they cover. Jordan gives back to the youth of Barton and Stafford Counties by helping with the Children’s Ag Day each year as he knows how instrumental these activities are to keeping children interested in agriculture and eventually bringing them back to our area. Jordan is one of the hardest working men I know and gives his all, day in and day out, to see the farming community grow and thrive here in central Kansas.

-Alyx Batman (Great Bend, Kan.) 

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