About Ag Connections

Sales

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  John Potts Sales Representative

  Office: 270-435-4369 ext. 238

  Cell Phone: 270-519-7149

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  John Potts has been with Ag Connections since February, 2001. He currently serves as manager of the Farm by Phone and Land.db Report Development teams (The Report team strives to deliver report functionality that meets our customer’s business needs.) His sales territory focuses mostly on horticultural and specialty crop areas throughout the United States and Mexico.

  John grew up on a farm in western Kentucky, growing tobacco and nursery stock for the family landscaping business. He graduated from Murray State University (’89) with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and a minor in Business Administration. He received a Master of Science in Agronomy (‘92) from the University of Kentucky. The title of his thesis was “Tillage Rotation Effects on Soil Nitrogen, Soil Carbon, and Corn Yield”.

  Prior to working at Ag Connections, John worked in South Florida as a soil scientist at United States Sugar Corporation and a citrus horticulturalist at Southern Gardens Citrus. He was also an Agricultural Field Representative for Pictsweet Frozen Foods in Bells, TN and an Agent for Priority Watershed Management at the University of Kentucky.

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  Matt Ramage Sales Representative

  Office: 270-435-4369 ext. 221

  Cell Phone: 270-227-8588

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  Matt joined the Ag Connections sales team in January 2005. Since then, Matt has worked closely with potato growers in the US Northeast, Midwest, Southwest, Pacific Northwest and Canada.  In 2007, Matt accepted the role of Team Leader of the Land.db Development Team. 

  Matt received a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in (1993) and a Master of Science in Agriculture (2000) both from Murray State University.  Matt also holds a commercial pesticide applicator’s license, commercial driver’s license and certified crop advisor license.  His previous work experience includes helping on the family farm, 7 years of service with Syngenta Seeds (where he was involved with plant breeding research) and 5 years of service with Southern States Cooperative as a retail store manager.

  For Matt, the most rewarding part of working with Ag Connections is the exposure to many crops and crop management, and meeting the customers that support our Land.db software products.  He thinks the most challenging task for Ag Connections is to continue to deliver the features and software enhancements that users need for compliance and profitability as their businesses grow and change.

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  Pete Clark Co-Owner/President

  Office: 270-435-4369 ext. 223

  Cell Phone: 270-210-3428

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  Pete Clark is a seasoned agribusiness professional with extensive experience in marketing, customer sales relationships, ROI sales approach, Agriculture GIS technologies, purchasing and contract negotiations. He has held crucial positions in several companies, including Vice President of Retail for Hutson’s Ag Service, where he successfully oversaw the retail operations of 16 stores, as well as the Regional Manager of IMC Agribusiness Inc. In addition to his retail experience in the agricultural industry, Pete is highly knowledgeable in cropping practices, fertilizer, crop protection chemicals and application methods.

  In 1998, Pete joined forces with Rick Murdock to form Ag Connections, Inc., a firm specializing in the development of software tools for growers, retailers and consultants to provide increased efficiency and compliance in the management of crop production. Since launching Ag Connections, Pete has helped grow the company from 3 employees to a team of 26, as well as establishing Ag Connections’ software and services as powerful tools for crop management. The company has software clients in 30 states in the USA as well as Brazil, Mexico and Canada.

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  Rick Murdock Co-Owner/Vice President

  Office: 270-435-4369 ext. 224

  Cell Phone: 270-210-3429

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  Rick Murdock is the Vice President and Co-owner of Ag Connections, a firm specializing in the development of software for crop production management and compliance. The company has software clients in 30 states in the USA as well as Brazil, Mexico and Canada.

  Rick has responsibilities for new market development and coordinates the software development teams at Ag Connections. Rick brings to Ag Connections a global lifetime experience in farming systems. From production agriculture, agricultural retail and agricultural manufacturing, these experiences helped to pull together the Ag Connections business model: Connecting Land, People and Technologies.

  Working with business partner Pete Clark, the two have put together a staff with a common passion in software development, sales and service. At Ag Connections we know that we connect to our customers by listening. We listen to understand needs and we serve by creating information technology solutions that meet those needs.

  Rick attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Soil Science.

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  Todd Hall Sales Representative

  Office: 270-435-4369 ext. 225

  Cell Phone: 270-293-0723

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  Todd Hall joined Ag Connections in January of 2007. Todd’s career in agriculture started on a large grain farm in western Kentucky, where he worked throughout high school. While working with the everyday farm activities after school, he also interned at a retail chemical / fertilizer dealer, where he became skilled with grid sampling and some of the early precision agriculture tools.

  While attending Murray State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Systems Technology, he worked with an agricultural research and development operation that managed over 150 acres of replicated corn, soybean, wheat, barley and canola test plots to provide agronomic information to the customer base. His position there included managing test plot protocols, planting and harvesting of research plots and presentation of research data to growers at field day events.

  Todd’s extensive field experience in agriculture has proven to be a valuable asset in his day-to-day communication with customers across the U.S. Todd currently works with the AgriEdge program in Southeast Missouri and North Alabama. While at Ag Connections, he has worked training and supporting Ag Connections software users on-site in over 12 states. Todd feels that every day working with growers and seeing different regions and operations is a very rewarding experience.

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  Will Ryan Sales Representative

  Office: 270-435-4369 ext. 236

  Cell Phone: 270-210-2003

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  Will Ryan has been a sales representative for Ag Connections since joining the company in May of 2003. Will graduated from Murray State University in the spring of 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Computer Information Systems.  Since 2003, Will has worked closely with growers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas, New Mexico, and Tennessee.

  Beyond his day-to-day sales duties, Will is responsible for managing Land.db integrations with the AgriEdge programs in the South. Will is currently working with field deployment of the tools that integrate GS2 controllers with Land.db. He is also a member of the Land.db and Report teams. In all of these roles, he identifies and relays ideas and requests that target the needs of growers he works with in the South.  Will is also the team leader for the eCotton project that provides growers with a way to import cotton yield records through eCotton web services into Land.db.

  For Will, the most rewarding element of working in Ag Connections is having the opportunity to work and create relationships with growers from all over the country, as well as helping them better manage crop production information.  Will feels blessed by the opportunity to have worked with an extensive array of growers and diversified crops: from vegetables and tobacco to cotton and grains.  With these experiences, Will is better able to serve and understand the needs of his customers.

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