If manufacturers can provide better images, real-time updates to parts and whole goods, and easier to navigate co-op policies, they stand to grow their revenue and build loyalty among dealers.
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When 80 percent of breaches are still caused by weak, reused, and compromised passwords, businesses need to focus on putting a stronger security foundation in place. Consider MFA.
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Discuss challenges in the work comp industry, emerging technologies and analytics to improve the process, achieving better outcomes for workers, and more.
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A rise in global shipping costs and new techniques are making the technology more attractive, and “increased flexibility and confidence on lead times may help drive efficiencies …”
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has suspended implementation and enforcement of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for private employers after a federal court
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“This three-year partnership with Enquiron brings a value to members far higher than their annual membership dues,” said Executive Vice President Vernon Schmidt. “I hope every company seizes the opportunity.”
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The new spending bill is an investment that the president has compared to the building of the transcontinental railroad and Interstate Highway System.
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The Board of Directors of the Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association elected officers at a meeting in Oklahoma City on Wednesday.
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Crane operators who belong to a powerful union and earn up to $250,000 a year are worsening the supply chain crisis by goofing off on the job, frustrated truckers told reporters.
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The law requires all newly sold small-motor equipment primarily used for landscaping to be zero-emissions—essentially to be battery operated or plug-in—as early as 2024.
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“It’s the perfect storm of Tylenol moments,” said AGCO’s Greg Toornman. “It’s one headache after another.”
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“We can expect these growing backlogs across Chinese manufacturers and ports to exacerbate imbalances at U.S. and European ports,” an analyst said. “The challenge is less about achieving full inventory—that ship has sailed—and more about adapting to, and planning for, future disruption.”
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Fewer farmers this month said they planned to increase their machinery purchases than on the August survey. More than half say their farm machinery purchase plans have been impacted by low inventories.
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Employee handbooks are essential for compliance and announce employee expectations. See what the Association’s HR attorneys consider mandatory or near-mandatory policies.
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Nearly six in 10 executives say they worry about a cyber attack. One in four has been a victim of such an attack–a 150 percent increase since 2015.
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Avoid starting a question with “Don’t you agree?” See why, and pick up more tips on phrases to avoid.
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Labor attorneys David James and Joe Schmitt help members make sense of OSHA’s intent to develop rules requiring employers with more than 100 employees to ensure their workforces are vaccinated or tested frequently for COVID.
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The new mill represents a bet by U.S. Steel that demand will remain elevated for an extended time. The spot market price for sheet steel is nearly $2,000 a ton, up from less than $500 a ton during summer 2020.
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Businesses are paying at least four times more to move their products than they were last year and face longer delivery times. Contributing to the problem is that the top six container operators control more than 70 percent of all container capacity.
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Average medical cost per claim with early manual therapy was 27 percent lower than similar claims with late manual therapy.
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In a survey conducted by Lessiter Media’s Farm Equipment magazine exploring what drives farmers to choose shortline equipment over major brands, farmers gave the shortline industry high marks.
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To find more drivers, the company is advising delivery partners to prominently advertise that they don’t screen applicants for marijuana use.
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In Iowa, in one week, five counties broke records for price per acre on farmland. In at least one county, the record had only been standing for a week.
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Determining a solution means that the process, the data, and the criteria drove the outcome. It doesn’t mean that it was devoid of intuition or creativity but that your intuition was validated through the process.
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Mike Steenhoek with the Soybean Transportation Coalition said the provisions will “clearly enhance the competitiveness of U.S. agriculture.”
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The trade groups indirectly acknowledged that China has not met all of its purchasing commitments but encouraged the administration to negotiate over issues not included in Phase One.
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It saves time. The potential is unparalleled. You learn from speakers. You gain perspective that improves your operations. And when this madness in the industry ends, the relationships you form will keep you moving forward.
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Forty-six percent of employers say they are “more strongly” considering a vaccine mandate for employees. The latest data is a stark contrast to earlier sentiments.
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Transaction would create one of the largest privately-held dealership groups in the world and enhance Cervus’ ability to execute on its strategy of delivering best-in-class equipment and solutions to its customers
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Much is said of big agriculture and its grip on Washington. And farmers have, in recent history, punched above their weight. But the forecast is not promising.
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Ports contending with record-high volumes are causing delays, and those delays are contributing to ocean freight rates that have quadrupled.
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The shortage of semiconductor chips is contributing to what one dealer characterizes as a return to the “dark ages” in terms of yield data.
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There are about 7.1 million PPP loans that remain outstanding and about 6 million are for $150,000 or less. That is the category the SBA seeks to support with this program.
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In late May, executives from member companies talked to Ag Innovator magazine about their biggest battles and how they’re faring in the fight.
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By the start of 2020, Chinese owners controlled about 192,000 agricultural acres in the U.S., worth $1.9 billion. That’s less than farmland owned by people from other nations, but it represents a trend of increasing purchases.
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Regardless of the outcome, the president’s actions have turned the hot light of public opinion on the right-to-repair issue.
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Workers and jobs are mismatched because people have moved or opted for a new direction, and the openings often don’t line up with job seekers’ skills or ZIP codes.
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Courts and lawmakers are facing questions about whether workers’ comp should cover medical marijuana and whether a positive test for marijuana changes an employers’ responsibility to pay for workplace injuries.
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A right-to-repair advocate called the move “great news for everyone concerned with repair monopolies.” Dealer groups have pushed back against legislation on the same issue.
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The farm equipment sales index in June logged the greatest growth it has shown since 2012. This marked the seventh consecutive month of growth.
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Eighty percent of businesses that pay ransoms in cyber attacks experience a subsequent attack, often by the same perpetrator.
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Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association will close its office Monday in observance of Independence Day. At the heart of this holiday
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Some 1.4 million people were laid off or furloughed from February to April 2020. But as of May, manufacturers were trying to fill 851,000 positions—a record high for the industry and a 112 percent increase since last February.
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The world hasn’t seen such across-the-board commodity-price increases since the beginning of the global financial crisis, and before that, the 1970s. Corn, soybeans and wheat have jumped to their highest levels in eight years.
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The surge is the cost of freight is threatening to boost the price of products across virtually all sectors. One analyst suggests that the longer these extreme shipping freight rates last, the more companies will take measures to shorten their supply chains.
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In total, three banks, the SBA and manufacturer financing divisions lost $6.4 million because of the fraud.
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The task force will address the bottlenecks in the agriculture, construction, transportation and semiconductor sectors.
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How well your website ranks on Google’s search engine results pages will now be impacted by how well your website performs for users.
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A decade ago, farmers received 17.6 cents of each dollar spent on food by Americans.
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Analysts forecast that China, reclaiming its spot as the No. 1 customer, will account for $1 of every $5 in overseas sales this year.
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