Despite falling grain prices and instability in its Ukrainian market, Titan Machinery reported its earnings for the second quarter on September 9 and said that it is on plan with its equipment inventory reduction and cashflow goals.
Freeman Implement, an agricultural-based business founded in 1909 that has been under the same family ownership for the past 50 years, has been sold to Sioux International.
As we reported in the last issue of E-Watch, Case IH is leaning on its dealers to drop as many as 7 shortline equipment brands they may be carrying. The shortlines named included Drago, Gerringhoff, Great Plains, Kinze, Kuhn Krause, Kubota and MacDon.
Dealers aren’t often called on to manufacture the equipment they sell, but in the Red River Valley region of North Dakota and Minnesota, Titan Machinery’s customers were in need of a 24-row, 22-inch planter.
Rocky Mountain Dealerships’ posted revenue gains of 5.5% in the second quarter as the dealership group made a concerted effort to reduce its equipment inventories.
Dealer-run combine clinics should promote preventative maintenance to help keep growers productive in the field during harvest.
April 8, 2013
Keeping farm customers productive and efficient is the goal of every farm equipment dealer. This is particularly true during harvest time. Unfortunately, not all customers are looking far ahead when it comes to getting their equipment ready.
Less than a month after Spencer's Case IH dealership was sold, the community's only other implement dealer, Northwest Equipment, has been sold to a South Dakota family.
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There was plenty of technology on display at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis., a few weeks ago. Farm Equipment editor Mike Lessiter caught up with Monarch Tractor’s John Issacson and got his take on the top 5 applications in autonomy right now.