The latest episode of Ag Equipment Intelligence’s On the Record is now available! In this week's broadcast we look at how dealers' sales outlook for 2018 compares to that of the OEMs, cyber-based security threats to precision farming and an increase in non-real estate farm loans. In addition, we look into the University of Missouri's Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute's forecast for net farm income in 2018 and 2019, North American ag equipment sales through the first three quarters of 2018 and an improvement in irrigation equipment sales for Lindsay.
C&B Operations LLC, a John Deere dealership headquartered out of Gettysburg, S.D., is expanding its business base by combining with 8 John Deere stores serving southern South Dakota and northern Iowa from Noteboom Implement LLC. The change is effective immediately.
In today's newscast we have details on Titan Machinery's realignment, an update on Deere's high-speed planter, Cervus Equipment and Rocky Mountain Equipment's latest earnings reports and info on the Open Ag Data Alliance.
The next two parts of our "Planning for Profits" series follow up a column we presented a year ago on the “Challenges & Opportunities of Expansion” (Farm Equipment, April/May 2009, p. 46-47).
In the March 2011 issue of Farm Equipment, we incorrectly reported that MacAllister Cat acquired Michigan Cat and added the Challenger line to the new Michigan stores.
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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.