Hi, I'm Tony Kramer and I'm sitting down with agriculture technology and equipment experts

to help you enhance your operation for today, tomorrow, and the future.

The agriculture industry has radically transformed over the past 50 years.

Advances in machinery have expanded the scale, speed, and productivity of farm equipment leading to more efficient

cultivation of the land. Now, agriculture in its early days of yet another revolution,

data, connectivity, analytics, connected sensors, and other emerging technologies to help reduce

yield loss and improve efficiencies.

RDO's AgTech podcast invites Adam Gilbertson, the Senior Vice President of Field Technology and

Innovation, to discuss the similarities and differences in trends for ag and construction technology

and identify what growers and construction professionals need to do now to be ready for

the future and how we build and grow our world. Welcome to the show, Adam. It's great to finally

sit down with you and kind of have this conversation. Getting started, I just want to hear a little

bit about you and your background and how you got to where you are today.

Hey, Tony, thanks. It's really great to be here with you today. And I appreciate the time and the

opportunity to visit with you about technology in a number of different spaces. You know, I've been

at this at RDO now. It'll be 20 years in August for me. And I actually started an egg sales way back when in our Fargo, North Dakota store, which doesn't exist anymore.

But so I had an opportunity early to work in agriculture back in 2003, 2004.

And let me tell you, the world's changed a bit since that time.

But, you know, I think that as we look at the world and we look at where both of these

industries have gone, for me, it's kind of been a passion ever since I came to the company.

And it started for me.

I kind of would tell you my roots with technology started in the military.

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