Before an employee quits, there is typically a phase of disengagement. In today’s tight labor market, it’s more important than ever to quickly identify that stage.
I just finished a cover story article for the June 2024 edition of Farm Equipment on a dramatic “color conversion” story at Intermountain New Holland (Twin Falls, Idaho). The 2-store dealership earned a chance with a custom harvester on one New Holland swather, and quickly parlayed it into 6 units.
I just finished reading the Cost of Doing Business article in the February 2024 issue of Farm Equipment, and I would like to share a persistent thought as it relates to that subject matter.
I have said the word never a lot in my life. Growing up, Grandpa would say “Never is a very long time,” and I would shrug it off. Back then, and now, when I say never, I mean it.
Last week, Leo Johnson (recently retired chairman of Johnson Tractor, Janesville, Wis.) and I took our mutual friend and Farm Equipment inaugural Hall of Fame class inductee Paul Wallem to lunch.
The New Category Development Team working with the American Petroleum Institute reports good progress on test procedures to produce new “C” and “F” category heavy-duty diesel engine oils
Oil marketer engine test labs are likely to get a lot noisier later this year as technicians there begin evaluating various new diesel engine oil formulations for a projected new category release in 2027.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Weasler Engineering, we take a first look at the major line results from the North American Equipment Dealers Assn. 2024 Dealer-Manufacturer Relations survey. Also in this episode: CDK Global's cyber attack puts IntelliDealer customers offline and Stotz Equipment and Premier Equipment announce an industry-first cross border partnership. In the Technology Corner, Noah Newman provides an inside look at Sentera's Aerial WeedScout product.
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