Hi, I'm Tony Kramer, your host of the Agriculture Technology podcast, and I'm sitting down

with agriculture technology and equipment experts to help you enhance your operation for today,

tomorrow, and into the future. In this episode, I talk with Stephen Fromm about planting

and seeding solutions in Australian agriculture.

With that, let's dive into the show. I am very excited to partner up with our RDO Australia

dealerships and talk a little bit about some of the unique things they have going on down in

Australia. So before we get started,

Stephen, why don't you introduce yourself, tell our listeners a little bit about who you are,

where you come from, and how you got to where you are today. Hey, goody there, Tony. Really pleased

to be here. As you said, my name's Stephen Fram. I think my official title is a business development manager

Crock Care, but at the end of the day, I'm just the planter specialist. Involved with John Deere

for 16 years, started down in what we call the pre-delivery shed, so delivering brand new

pieces of equipment and getting those ready and getting them out the door. Very sort of lucky and

blessed to work my way up through the business and yeah to where I am today. So last six or eight

years purely focused on all things planting and I guess here in Australia we do have a lot of

different crops and commodities all the way from trees to cotton, vegetables to to sugar cane.

Seemed to have a little bit of a grasp on all of those things, Tarnie.

Yeah, you guys get to dabble in a little bit of everything.

Australian agriculture, a lot of what you guys do is dry land.

And in the dry land, you guys have concerns or really have to look at the moisture

content and what you guys are doing for irrigation. Now, there's a lot of different ways you guys

are doing that down in Australia. So let's talk a little bit about some of the ways Australian

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