Big Valley Tractor is Rural Lifestyle Dealer’s 2017 Dealership of the Year in the single-store category. Don Franzia, co-owner, talks about the structure of his sales, service and parts
teams.
John Ewald, owner of Ewald Kubota, regularly travels to each of the dealership's 8 stores to keep up personal contact with the staff and identify the "stars" in the company.
Big Valley Tractor is Rural Lifestyle Dealer’s 2017 Dealership of the Year in the single-store category. Don Franzia, co-owner, talks about building their store and the design features that encourage customer flow.
Big Valley Tractor is Rural Lifestyle Dealer’s 2017 Dealership of the Year in the single-store category. Don Franzia, co-owner, talks about the approach he takes to selling and building relationships with customers.
Kubota Corp., which began selling agricultural drones in July this year, aims to develop a system to analyze the image data taken by a drone, such as the growing conditions of crops, and have artificial intelligence provide operating instructions to self-driving tractors.
The new products include the new gas-powered RTV-XG850 Sidekick; six new M Series specialty ag tractors, with three narrow ROPS tractors, a Power Krawler and high-clearance and low-profile models; and two new compact excavators.
Kubota plans to design and build two, one million square foot facilities to expand its distribution capacity. They will also establish a fifth operational division and sales office in Edgerton, Kan.
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