In this podcast, we have a follow up on the UAW Deere strike, including where dealers stand on the issue. In the Technology Corner, Michaela Paukner discusses how some dealers are digging out old GPS receivers for customers amid ongoing equipment shortages due supply chain challenges. Also in this episode, we look at AGCO’s strong third quarter results, the continued equipment inventory and challenges dealers are facing, along with price increases, and how Japan’s tractor manufacturing for 2020 compared to previous years.

In this podcast, the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank reports loans for financing farm equipment improved in the 4Q of 2018. Ag-Pro Companies expands to now having 20 stores in Ohio. Also in this episode, AGCO, CNH Industrial and Art's Way report their fiscal 2018 earnings.

With the acquisition of Shearer Implement’s three dealer locations in Ohio, Ag-Pro Companies has raised its total stores to 82 in seven states. Twenty of the locations are in Ohio and all have been acquired since November 2018.

Dealer consolidation continued in a big way in 2018 and H&R Agri-Power and Ag-Pro Companies made the biggest moves in 2018.

Ag-Pro Companies, already the largest North American farm equipment dealership group based on the number of locations, has not only added 10 new locations but it has expanded its regional influence with the acquisition of Ohio-based JD Equipment.

JD Equipment announced the intent to sell its assets to Ag-Pro Ohio LLC, a subsidiary of Ag-Pro Companies. Ag-Pro Companies has 57 John Deere locations throughout the country.

These dealerships serve a diverse customer base that includes growers of cotton, sorghum, citrus, produce and sugar cane in addition to ranchers, landowners and landscapers, small acreage farms and residential customers.

As a result of this latest acquisition, Ag-Pro Companies now has 12 locations in Southern Texas and a total of 50 locations across Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and Texas.