Topcon & DICKEY-john Form Alliance

Topcon Positioning Systems and DICKEY-john Corporation announced that they have formed a strategic relationship in the agriculture industry.

Topcon, with headquarters in Livermore, CA, recently unveiled its System 350 machine control system, which utilizes the new X30 control console and its AGI-3 receiver for autosteering functionality.

DICKEY-john, based in Auburn, IL, serves the agriculture, off-road equipment, public works and analytical instrumentation industries worldwide. They will be adding Topcon’s X30 machine control display as a next-generation console to their current product line-up. ◆

Officers

President: john malinowski leon’s mfg. co. inc.

1st Vp: sandy kimball bigham brothers, inc.

2nd vp: Andrew Cummings T. G. Schmeiser Co. Inc.

Treasurer: robert Atkinson w & A Mfg. Co.

Secretary: Marc Mcconnell Art’s-way Mfg. Co.

Ex Officio: John McCoy Orthman Mfg. inc.

Board Of Directors

Tony Bakker Monosem inc.

Mark Core Vermeer Corporation

Jan Faassen GKN OffHighway

Paul Jeffrey MacDon Industries Ltd.

Donny Jones Belltec Industries, Inc.

Richard Kirby Kirby MFg Inc.

Mike Kloster Worksaver Inc.

Stanley McFarlane McFarlane Mfg. Co.

Arlon Rahn A & R Marketing

Jacqueline Vassar Vassar MFg Co.

Staff

Vernon Schmidt Executive VP

Hannah Hamontree Dir. Memb. Services

Tricia Kidd Administrative Assistant

Cathy Dukleth Administrative Assistant

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