AgPro Podcast: Tailoring to Specific Grower Needs

In the AgPro Podcast, voices from the industry asked: How is your team adding value to the products and services you provide farmer customers?

 

Ralph Rendon

Reedley, Calif.

 

Director of Marketing, Gar Tootelian, Inc.

A: We’ve gotten really specific on the needs of the grower. We have 40 pest control advisors, so we’ve got a lot of eyes and ears out there. They’re able to bring us information and what needs are coming up in the field. We offer water service, we do shock treatments to clean out drip lines, and we sell products that are preventative products that help keep water systems running clean and efficiently. We’ve added these services and we’re looking for new ways, and innovative ways, to help growers and solve their problems. The grower is the boss, and we try to take care of the grower as best as we can.

 

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