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AGCO Dealership Launches Same-Day Parts Delivery Service

DULUTH, Ga., - AGCO (NYSE: AGCO), a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural machinery and precision ag technology, announced the launch of AgRevolution's™ same-day delivery service for machinery parts. AgRevolution, an AGCO-owned, full-line agricultural equipment dealer operating in Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana, now offers farmers same-day delivery in as little as two hours for in-stock parts.

t is the next step in the dealer's implementation of FarmerCore, AGCO's global initiative to transform the customer experience by prioritizing on-farm service and sales support. Customers in the western Kentucky, southern Indiana and southern Illinois service area can place orders online or by calling their nearest AgRevolution location. In-stock parts will be delivered directly to the farm within between two and six hours from the order, depending on part size. Same-day delivery is possible because of AgRevolution's fleet of 30 mobile service trucks that provide on-farm maintenance and repairs.

"We're dedicated to providing an exceptional on-farm experience that takes our entire business directly to farmers, making them more productive and profitable," said Stacy Anthony, CEO, AgRevolution. "Implementing same-day parts delivery is central to our Farmer-First commitment as it enables us to minimize downtime for farmers who handle their own repairs as well as customers who call our expert technicians for support."

With its new parts delivery offering, AgRevolution illustrates how dealers can deliver on FarmerCore promises: the on-farm mindset, smart network coverage and digital engagement.

"FarmerCore puts dealers in closer proximity -- both onsite and online -- to farmers, creating a seamless purchase, service and support experience," said Stefan Caspari, AGCO Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Business Effectiveness. "As FarmerCore adoption expands, the integrated digital and physical elements will empower farmers to engage with AGCO dealers on terms of their choosing across the purchasing journey and product ownership lifecycle."

A growing number of AGCO dealerships in North and South America are deploying aspects of the FarmerCore program, including expanded mobile service fleets, alternative format outlets (e.g., parts-only stores) and digital tools to enhance customer support.

Source : News Agcocorp

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Western Canadian Agriculture: Hard Times Made the World's Best Farmers

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Western Canadian agriculture produced the most advanced farmers in the world not through abundance but through adversity. The crow rate fell. The wheat price went nowhere. The brown envelopes stopped.

When the subsidies disappeared, the bad farmers left and the good ones stayed. And the ones who stayed could not just grow wheat anymore. They started growing lentils and canola and peas and flax and faba beans. They built crop rotation. They got serious about agronomy because there was no government backstop. That process produced the Western Canadian agriculture Dennis Bulani describes in this clip: the most advanced, most educated farming culture in the world.

His contrast with Iowa corn and soybean farmers is sharp. At a DeKalb farmer meeting in Okoboji, Iowa, he asked what crop rotation they ran. Beans on corn stubble, corn on bean stubble. How do you fertilize? The co-op agronomist handles it. Have you considered other crops? No need. We make so much money on corn and soybeans. Western Canadian agriculture was never allowed that comfort. And now those Iowa farmers are watching soybean markets lock up with China and corn prices slide, and they do not have the agronomy knowledge or the research base to pivot. Western Canadian farmers adapted on a dime because they had done it before.

Dennis also makes the case that Western Canadian agriculture keeps adapting in real time. Low commodity prices over the past year have pushed growers to look seriously at precision spot-spray technology. He knows a neighbor who bought a sprayer with the seeing-eye system and sprayed only 80 out of 320 acres. As a chemical retailer Dennis acknowledges that will affect his sales. He supports it anyway, because if it advances Canadian agriculture and makes farmers money, that is a good outcome.

The lesson Dennis draws from the tale of two farms: continuous improvement is the only durable strategy. When canola was $22 a bushel some growers went to Arizona instead of the Crop Production Show. When the price came down those same growers came back to the research and the discipline. Products do not go on Rack Petroleum's shelves unless they pass a replicated trial first. That is what Western Canadian agriculture built through hard times: farmers who do the work whether the times demand it or not.

Dennis Bulani is CEO of Rack Petroleum and Ultimate Yield in Biggar, Saskatchewan. Dan Aberhart hosts GTF Productions, Western Canadian Agriculture's foremost live briefing platform and its foremost AI training platform for ag operators