Management
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Making Internships Pay Off
Planning to hire an intern or several interns at your facility this summer? An upcoming workshop has been developed to help your facility turn…
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Get Credit For Security Efforts
With the tax deadline rapidly approaching, the Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) would like to remind retailers that the Ag Chemical Security Credit (ACSC) can…
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Getting Aligned With Customers
Last month, we started discussing how to drive changes within your company that will impact loyalty. The first topic of discussion was why change…
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100 Million Pounds, And Growing
In October 2008, the Ag Container Recycling Council (ACRC) celebrated the collection and recycling of 100 million pounds of triple-rinsed pesticide containers in a…
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Safety Is Job One For Employees
In the world of ag retail, providing safety is a full-time job. Today’s dealerships need to not only provide safety to their employees, but…
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Show Some Respect
This is a strange position to be in right now, or at least it feels strange to me. We write about agriculture, but we…
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Beyond The Correction
As a result, those in the ethanol and related agribusiness industries, as well as investors — whether invested in the handful of public ethanol…
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Marketing/Rebate Programs
The crop protection industry has long made a practice of employing marketing programs to sell products through the channel. These programs, which include discounts…
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Being A Survivor
The other day, Group Editor Paul Schrimpf passed a particularly interesting Web article my way. This story discussed the precarious futures for various companies…
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10 Steps To Keep Good Employees
A wise manager we know coined a phrase that really rings true in today’s retail agronomy business: “An employee takes a job to put…
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