Articles Tagged with ''PrairieLand Partners''

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PFD Summit: Recruiting & Retaining Precision Farming Specialists

Knowing what traits to look for and where to find new employees is only the beginning. Keeping employees is a whole other battle.
Finding the next generation of precision farming specialists is a challenge that almost 40% of dealers reported was among their most important issues in the Precision Farming Dealer 2015 Benchmark Study. First, dealers must identify the traits they’re looking for in potential candidates for their fast-paced, rapidly evolving precision farming departments. Then, they face the challenge of actually finding these recruits.
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2014 Dealership of the Year

Seeding & Planting Modifications

Cory Leonhardt provides an overview of the types of seeding and planting modifications currently available to growers based on existing technologies and how his department works with growers to get equipment ready for the field. Leonhardt works in the Integrated Solutions Department for PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership group in Kansas.
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2014 Dealership of the Year: PrairieLand Partners

Encouraging Professional Growth for Young Managers

Doug Neufeld, CEO of PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership in Kansas, talks about the importance of including younger people in management positions at the dealership. The younger generation is more likely to be able to adapt to change and that ability can typically make up for their limited amount of experience.
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Adding New Positions with Long-Term View of Success

Doug Neufeld, CEO of PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership in Kansas, explains that the dealership has made investments with long-term payback rather than immediate payback. Resources have been committed to the Integrated Solutions Department to lead the precision farming efforts in the dealership. Also, they've named a product training manager inside the dealership to be an expert on increasing the productivity of each piece of equipment sold to customers.
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Overview of PrairieLand Partners' New Integrated Solutions Department

Steve Kaufman, Integrated Solutions manager with PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership in Kansas, shares the process of how the Integrated Solutions department grew from the earliest years. What began as AMS support on cellphones eventually evolved into a call center. Today, the department produces customized reports based the data each customer collects in their own fields and helps the customer understand and use that data to make management decisions.
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