Hey guys, this is Nate Dorsey, agronomist with RDO Equipment Company, and you're listening to the Agriculture Technology Podcast.

RDO is an industry leader in agriculture equipment and precision agriculture technology.

On this podcast, you'll learn from industry experts on the latest from RDO and John Deere. Welcome back to another episode of Ardo Quentin Company's Agriculture Technology podcast.

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First, you may have noticed

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Now, this is the first episode and a series of episodes on Agriculture and Precision Agriculture in Australia.

So I'm really excited to welcome our special guest to the show.

His name is Stephen

Haggerty and he is the Precision Farming Manager for Vanderfield's VNet team. So I'd really

like to welcome me to the show today, Stephen, and give you a chance to introduce yourself and

also explain the relationship between RDO and Vanderfield. Thank you, Knight. Yeah, so

RDO equipment and Vanderfield entered into a partnership a couple of years ago and RDO are

a 50% stakeholder in the Vanderfield business.

So Vanderfield are Australia's largest John Deer Dealer Group, established a little over 50 years

ago by Gordon Bandersea and Gordon's sons are still involved in the business along obviously with the stake from RDO.

So we cover most of the northern half of the east coast of Australia, the state of Queensland.

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