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Time Management Hack: Grab a Tomato Kitchen Timer
Time Management Hack: Grab a Tomato Kitchen Timer

Is there something on your to-do list that keeps sinking to the bottom? To really maximize your time for those tasks, build in time for short breaks.

Sara Schafer
Just Like a Banana, Gratitude Doesn’t Age Well

To inspire your team, find the time to acknowledge their work, contributions and achievements. This is especially true during a crisis.

Quite The Kerfuffle
Quite The Kerfuffle

The pace at which we are creating data is accelerating. What do we understand about how we are generating and providing data via the technology tools we use?

Ask Questions, Build Bridges, Be Positive
Ask Questions, Build Bridges, Be Positive

It’s very likely Ron Farrell mentored hundreds of people. We are all carrying forward the biggest lessons he left us with: ask questions, build bridges, and be positive. 

Think About This: Learning From Others’ Failures
Think About This: Learning From Others’ Failures

Did you know Kodak, which went bankrupt in 2012, actually invented digital photography?

Why Fungicide Decisions Are Different in 2019
Why Fungicide Decisions Are Different in 2019

As scouts are out in the field looking for yield threats, disease pressures are in the bulls’ eye. And maintaining stalk quality and standability are two ways to mitigate risks for a headache at harvest.

Why Autonomy Is Similar But Different Than Auto-steer
Why Autonomy Is Similar But Different Than Auto-steer

Did auto-steer set the stage of autonomy in agriculture? The answer is yes and no.

Think About This: Retailers React To Technology and Consolidation
Think About This: Retailers React To Technology and Consolidation

Here are three examples of how ag retailers are reacting

Take Chances To Create Change
Take Chances To Create Change

As retailers and service providers have told me when reflecting on 2019, they know farmers will run 24/7 next planting season.

Planning To Dump Your Seedsman? Consider These 4 Benefits First.
Planning To Dump Your Seedsman? Consider These 4 Benefits First.

Farmer-dealers and retailers can be valuable resources.

Did The Roots Of AgTech Help Launch Twitter?
Did The Roots Of AgTech Help Launch Twitter?

It’s an interesting trajectory from Clarks, Nebraska to Silicon Valley for Ev Williams.

Scouting Season 2019: All Hands On Deck
Scouting Season 2019: All Hands On Deck

A recent AgProfessional.com poll showed that 77% of our audience is investing in more scouting resources this year. And perhaps there is no better year to do so than 2019.

Think About This: When Uncertainty Is Certain

What does this mean for ag retailers?

Think About This: When Uncertainty Is Certain
Think About This: When Uncertainty Is Certain

What does this mean for ag retailers?

Think About This: Jim Collins Says Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs
Think About This: Jim Collins Says Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs

He says the question isn’t whether to innovate or not, but rather there’s a threshold of innovation necessary in any industry. What’s most important for businesses is to be able to do is scale the right innovation.

Sara Schafer
Management Hack: Grab a Tomato Kitchen Timer

Is there something on your to-do list that keeps sinking to the bottom? To really maximize your time for those tasks, build in time for short breaks.

What's Your Weather Forecast For Planting Season?
What's Your Weather Forecast For Planting Season?

Water could be a problem at planting.

Margy Eckelkamp
Think About This: Déjà Vu But Also Totally New

Although this isn’t the first time cannabis has been grown in the U.S., it’s new for the farmers, retailers, consultants and suppliers supporting the budding industry.

Margy Eckelkamp
Think About This: When Everything Comes Together

As businesses align and their resources combine, the opportunities accelerate. But bringing together complex technologies and ideas is a challenge.

Margy Eckelkamp
Bill Gates Loves Fertilizer

Gates sees fertilizer helping to sow rich ground for growth across Africa.

Current Adoption of E-Commerce for Crop Inputs

Consolidation, technology, farmer demographics and more are influencing the present and future of ag retail.

Margy Eckelkamp
Current Adoption of E-Commerce for Crop Inputs

Consolidation, technology, farmer demographics and more are influencing the present and future of ag retail.

Margy Eckelkamp
Ag Retail Adds To Small Town Skylines

Facilities often dominate a small town’s horizon and often give it a distinct identity.

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Three Years Later, Tar Spot Questions Outweigh What’s Known

Here's a rundown of what you need to be aware about regarding the emerging disease Tar Spot.

Margy Eckelkamp
Retailers: Respond With Data And Creativity

The seed industry landscape is changing dramatically. For retailers, AgPro assembled usable insights into the key trends of the seed industry with our annual Seed Guide.

Margy Eckelkamp
Waiting For Dicamba’s Second Shoe to Drop

It’s a waiting game as EPA will announce dicamba’s future forward in the next month.

Margy Eckelkamp
5 Lessons From My Internship Years

Earlier this week, I saw a number of retailers recognizing their summer interns for “National Intern Day.”

Margy Eckelkamp
Lost In The Weeds?

What does weed control in the future look like?

Margy Eckelkamp
Key Takeaways From AgPro Salary Survey

The Salary Survey keeps a tab on the compensation and benefits trends for these two key positions.

Margy Eckelkamp
Technology Provides A New Level Of Scrutiny

It’s not just about when you are using the machine, but how the machine is being used, and what’s next for that machine.

Seasonal Safety Considerations
Seasonal Safety Considerations

June is National Safety Month. It’s also an incredibly busy month for everyone involved in agriculture.

Invisible Or Beautiful
Invisible Or Beautiful

We can all be a little more entrepreneurial in our mindset and how we approach our jobs.

Agronomy: Old School And New Tools
Agronomy: Old School And New Tools

This blog could also be titled “When bad things happen to good people.”

How The Mergers Are Affecting Ag Retail
How The Mergers Are Affecting Ag Retail

Our team has been covering the developments as things shake out.

The Rise of the Rest Tour aims to put a spotlight on entrepreneurs across the country.
Billionaires: They Are Just Like Us!

The Rise of the Rest Tour aims to put a spotlight on entrepreneurs across the country.

A Couple of Thoughts On This Time Of Year
A Couple of Thoughts On This Time Of Year

I respect the pressure that ag professionals feel, and I truly want you all to be safe.

4 Examples Of Ag At The Center Of Local Regulations
4 Examples Of Ag At The Center Of Local Regulations

"All politics is local" can be applied directly to agriculture and the potential for local, county and state regulations to have a big impact on the industry.

An Analogy Between Baseball and Pest Control
An Analogy Between Baseball and Pest Control

If successful pest control constitutes a run scored, then the four bases you have to touch are time, equipment, people and products.

Change Is Always A Hot Story
Change Is Always A Hot Story

A recent hot story was that CPS will have a new name—Nutrien Ag Solutions.

All Rectangles Are Not Squares
All Rectangles Are Not Squares

For many who are just outside of agriculture, generalizations may drive their impressions of ag businesses and the people of the industry.

Four Keys To Making Technology Pay
Four Keys To Making Technology Pay

“We have seen that with record keeping—if it’s easy, the data will be good, and goals will be accomplished. If it’s difficult, we’ll question how the data was captured and how accurate it is,”

Two Application Technology Trends
Two Application Technology Trends

These are just two of the many application technologies that are changing this segment of the industry.

Without trying to sound dramatic, through the first quarter of 2018 the year is already shaping up to be the type of year we won’t forget.
So What’s The Big Deal In 2018?

Without trying to sound dramatic, through the first quarter of 2018 the year is already shaping up to be the type of year we won’t forget.