After the big show at the John Deere product launch all the dealers were invited down to the floor and the next room to see all the new equipment up close and personal. While I was wandering around the floor I met Chris Whitehead, John Deere Manager of Advertising and Marketing Communications. He provided me with an overview of what …
Seth Crawford Talks John Deere Combines
The big combines just have that “wow” factor when it comes to a show and this week’s John Deere product introduction was no exception. The marketing manager for combines for John Deere is Seth Crawford. I interviewed him right after the field demonstration portion on combines. The one in this picture is one of their new 70 Series with the …
Sprayers and Spray Controlling From John Deere
Here’s where we got to see new sprayers in action at the John Deere product introduction. We had three presenters including Iowa farm brothers Brent and Lee Madden and Adam Hart. They also talked about how some of the new John Deere precision ag equipment works with these sprayers to more precisely apply product. You can watch a portion of …
Getting Precise With John Deere Upgrades
Kayla Reynolds works in the John Deere Ag Management Solutions area just like Mike Park. She was our teacher in the “classroom” part of our media/analysts session this week at the John Deere product introduction. Kayla focused on 4 main topics related to precision ag. They are long range RTK, shading optimization, GS2 rate controller expansion and Swath Control Pro …
Scalable Accuracy in Precision Ag Products
At the John Deere product introduction we got to see some big iron in action. One demo involved this 9630T which has an amazing stability functionality built into it including a new AirCushion walking I-beam suspension system. While I was at this field station I interviewed Mike Park, Factory Marketing Manager, Ag Management Solutions. Mike talks about John Deere’s precision …
John Deere Recommends Biodiesel
The Director of Ag Industry Relations for John Deere is Don Borgman. Here he is getting interviewed by Mike LaPorte, KRVN. Don says that although biofuels isn’t a real focus for John Deere at their product launch what’s going on in the development of biofuel products is having a real impact on their business. He highly recommends that producers use …
Sesitivity Surveillance By Pfizer Animal Health
Dr. Jeff Watts is the associate research fellow, head, Laboratory Sciences, Microbiology Support Laboratory at the Veterinary Medicine Research and Development facility for Pfizer Animal Health. That’s a long title and he’s in charge of some pretty serious research. At the recent media event held at the VMRD he spoke about, “antimicrobial susceptibility testing of BRD pathogens.” Wow. You may …
The Great Ethanol Pumpkin
This is a pretty incredible work of art. At least I think I’d call it art. I don’t know about you but I’ve never carved a pumpkin that I’d be willing to enter into a competition. This “ethanol” pumpkin was carved by William Hughes from Versailles, Ind. It turned out to be one of the award winning pumpkins at the …
Learn About John Deere Tractors
Here’s a shot of Willie Vogt, editorial director, Farm Progress Companies, in a John Deere tractor at the field day yesterday. His test station was behind the 5000 series tractors with 4 wheel drive that were also on display for test driving. Willie is in a 7230 tractor in the picture. At my first demo station I spoke with Mike …
John Deere Products From a Customer Solutions Perspective
The agricultural media met for breakfast this morning prior to some classroom presentations and heard from John Lagemann, John Deere, Vice President, Sales – Ag Marketing, Lenexa. John says they’re very pleased with the product introduction that’s taking place. He says the event allows the company to share product and strategic plans with their partners. He says that “Dedicated Leadership” …