Kerry Hartwig

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Farm4Profit Podcast · Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements · 14 Oct 2024 podcast

I want to know where these shades are going afterwards because we might need one of these at the studio. We can work on that. Got to work on that.

I'm excited because when we did a conversation like this at Commodity Classic, our listeners really loved the relatableness of the actual human beings that are inside the company. that are putting together one of America's greatest products and greatest brands. So welcome to the podcast. We have Michael Porter. You are the go-to market leader for large tractors and tillage. That is correct.

Happy to be here. And then we have Eric Halfman. I said that correctly? Yes, sir. All right. The go-to market manager for gators and utility vehicles.

I love that. Oh, yeah, it's gator utility vehicles. Not and. It's the same thing. I want to know, what is the go-to market leader, manager, any of that title? What does that mean inside of John Deere?

So you're literally, you take the item and take it to market. Absolutely.

Well, it is kind of an exciting job.

For sure. So it's fun for us right here in the heartland, the Midwest, the Corn Belt, all the great terms that we use for corn country, the best state in Iowa that grows corn, use a lot of these large tractors and tillage tools. Absolutely. So we got to see the unveiling of the 830 at Commodity Classic. Yep. What else has evolved since we talked then?

We did an interview earlier yesterday, and your products got a very large compliment for how smart the tillage tools have gotten because they're creating variable depth tillage scripts. that farmers have been able to put to work because they're identifying where that compaction layer is. And now you can partner it with one of these tools and effectively maximize your pass across the field.

I know. I love the interview and the energy that these shows have, the connections that we're able to make, because you don't think about the autonomy and the autonomous ready tillage tools as being something that's important. But that's one of the things that you guys are continuing to push forward is that path towards autonomy.

Well, I'm going to come back to more tillage and large tractor talk, but I don't want to leave Eric out. He's talking about GPS and knowing where these tillage tools are, but I'm pretty sure I've seen some guidance mounted on your gator.

See, that's what my dad used to call me. My initials are TW. The tax write-off.

We still have two at the farm. They will not die. We have tried killing those things and they won't go away.

Well, we did our interview yesterday with Tracy from Easter Seals, who helps farmers with disabilities continue to farm and farming families that have family members with disabilities. And she described the gator as a necessary tool. That's what keeps some of these farmers going, doing what they love to do.

We didn't get to be the go-to market manager for nothing.

I was just sitting ready to say that. I put some turf-friendly tires on there, and I'll just drive that thing around the golf course. I love it. Okay, let's go back to Tillage, and I'm going to figure out how to marry these two together.

That's a lot of energy that you have to try and top.

Yeah, now do any of your tillage tools integrate with the gator lineup?

They need like a single shank disc gripper to go behind a gator.

Not a unique idea at all.

And we learned, too, when you were talking about the large tractors down at Commodity, that there's a lot of new technology involved with the fact that we're going to work on maximizing fuel efficiency. We're taking these larger frame, larger horsepower tractors. You've got them weighted and balanced appropriately to where we're not losing power to the ground.

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