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Raising The Bar
When you get really familiar with something, you begin to take it for granted. It’s human nature — everyone is…
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Working On The Railroad
Over the past few years, I’ve spent many a column talking about my history with the beverage and candy industries.…
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Do Your Customers Love You?
One of the biggest problems worrying ag retailers is customer loyalty. There is a rural legend that customers are not…
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Rallying To Save Rust Alert System
You know it as ipmPIPE if you service soybean growers — the key pipeline to critical Asian soybean rust information…
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Show Me The Tender
With all the crop inputs your grower-customers are using while crop prices are high, now is a good time to…
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Award-Winning Examples Of Ag Retail Safety
Without safety, dealership security becomes largely pointless, say industry insiders. This month, CropLife® magazine takes an in-depth look at all…
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Rust Redux
Phakospora pachyrhizi (Asian soybean rust) arrived in the southern U.S. (Louisiana) in September 2004, probably via spores swept along by…
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Keeping Visitors Safe At Your Ag Retail Operation
Part of doing business means that visitors will have to come to your facility from time to time. But which…
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Extra S.T.E.P. Awards
Have you ever called someone and thanked them for doing a good job? Too many times, people call and complain…
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Time For Telematics
Whether you call it “the next frontier” or “the next big thing,” telemetry is set to revolutionize precision agriculture. Simply…
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A Fantasy Island
“No man is an island, but some of us are pretty good peninsulas.” — Solomon Short Personally, I happen to…
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Big Country, Big Conservation
Editor’s note: Special thanks to DuPont Crop Protection for its continued support of the Environmental Respect Awards program, now in…