The Blog for the Ag Sales Professional

An Agriculture blog dedicated to selling in agribusiness.  These Ag blog articles focus on the best practices for selling to farmers and livestock producers.  We also focus on those salespeople who call on Ag buyers at the thousands of agribusinesses that serve the farming community

Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of training many salespeople in the skills and art of becoming an Ag Sales Professional.  While it’s true that selling is selling, there are some specifics that help when you know the industry you are training in.  For this week’s article, I started to think about how I […]

It’s closing in on 30 years now that I’ve heard the same argument or should I say “pointed discussion” going on in the offices, feed mills, grain elevators and Ag Retail facilities.  It goes something like this: The Salesperson says – “I am the eyes and ears of this business and nothing happens until something […]

Senior Year There’s a life cycle in every career and being an Ag Sales Professional is no different.  In most cases, we start out young, with little experience.  If we stick with it, we move into our experienced years, where we climb to success and then move into the waning years of our career. This […]

 There’s a life cycle in every career and being an Ag Sales Professional is no different.  In most cases, we start out young, with little experience.  If we stick with it, we move into our experienced years, where we climb to success and then move into the waning years of our career. This is the […]

There’s a life cycle in every career and being an Ag Sales Professional is no different.  In most cases, we start out young, with little experience.  If we stick with it, we move into our experienced years, where we climb to success and then move into the waning years of our career. There’s nothing comparable […]

If You Ever…..                         Many of you will remember Jeff Foxworthy and his classic comedy routine of “You might be a Redneck”.  They were a series of things that you might have done in your life that indicated that you might be a redneck.  Recently, I was in mixed company and was telling a […]

There’s a life cycle in every career and being an Ag Sales Professional is no different.  In most cases, we start out young, with little experience.  If we stick with it, we move into our experienced years, where we climb to success and then move into the waning years of our career.  Below are a […]

Here’s How             It happens to every person who ever set out on the great adventure of selling something.  Eventually you will experience that moment in sales when you FEEL Salesy.  You know it when it happens and it’s not a good feeling.  Learn how to recognize it, self-correct for it, learn from it & […]

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