Osmundson Appoints New Outside Sales Executive

Apr 20, 2023

Jon Sherrod, recently joined Osmundson Mfg., Inc. in the role of Outside Sales Executive. He will reside in Ashland, Va., and his primary focus is to develop new business at both the Perry, Iowa and Kentucky locations. He will also develop new business in a diversified market (outside of Ag). He is well versed in the California and Canadian markets, but also has good contacts throughout North and South America. He will start off in Perry to begin learning products, our manufacturing and the Osmundson culture.

“I’ve known Jon over a decade as we were colleagues in the Ag Equip industry. We traveled the same shows, called on similar customers and served together on the FEMA Supplier Board of Governors,” said Joe Sampson, vice president of Sales at Osmundson, Mfg., Inc. “He comes from King Kutter and has also worked for the Italian gear box/drive shaft company called Bondioli and Pavesi. Jon is an avid hunter and outdoorsman. He is also a former college football offensive lineman. You’ll be able to tell when you meet him! He is passionate about sales and I have 100% confidence he will succeed at this role, and will fit in wonderfully with us.”

Source : Farm Equipment

Video: Seeing the Whole Season: How Continuous Crop Modeling Is Changing Breeding

Plant breeding has long been shaped by snapshots. A walk through a plot. A single set of notes. A yield check at the end of the season. But crops do not grow in moments. They change every day.

In this conversation, Gary Nijak of AerialPLOT explains how continuous crop modeling is changing the way breeders see, measure, and select plants by capturing growth, stress, and recovery across the entire season, not just at isolated points in time.

Nijak breaks down why point-in-time observations can miss critical performance signals, how repeated, season-long data collection removes the human bottleneck in breeding, and what becomes possible when every plot is treated as a living data set. He also explores how continuous modeling allows breeding programs to move beyond vague descriptors and toward measurable, repeatable insights that connect directly to on-farm outcomes.

This conversation explores:

• What continuous crop modeling is and how it works

• Why traditional field observations fall short over a full growing season

• How scale and repeated measurement change breeding decisions

• What “digital twins” of plots mean for selection and performance

• Why data, not hardware, is driving the next shift in breeding innovation As data-driven breeding moves from research into real-world programs, this discussion offers a clear look at how seeing the whole season is reshaping value for breeders, seed companies, and farmers, and why this may be only the beginning.