Five years ago this week, during Agritechnica 2019 in Hanover, Germany, Claas Senior Vice President-Americas, Eric Raby, talked at length with Ag Equipment Intelligence.
CLAAS and long-time combine dealer, Butler Machinery Company, will be starting another chapter in a professional journey that has lasted more than 25 years. The joint transition plan laid out by the OEM and current dealer features a “long runway” to ensure that CLAAS customers will receive continuous service and parts support as new CLAAS dealerships are established in the region.
In letters to customers, Ziegler Inc. recently announced their intent to close their Deforest and Dodgeville, Wisconsin stores and their Chillicothe and Marshall, Missouri stores.
This year’s Farm Progress show saw manufacturers show off their latest, largest tractors, including Case IH’s Steiger 715 and Class’ Xerion 12.650 and 12.590.
Ag Equipment Intelligence caught up with 5 tractor manufacturers at this year’s Farm Progress Show and asked them to explain their areas of optimism for 2024.
Claas introduces its latest tractor lines: the Xerion 12.650 and 12.590, the Arion 660, 650 and 630, as well as row-crop friendly options on the Axion 960 TT and 930 TT.
In this episode of On the Record, we take a look at how the publicly traded OEMs stack up when looking at R&D spend as a percentage of ag equipment sales. Noah Newman joins us from the FIRA show in Fresno, Calif., in the Technology Corner to discuss GUSS Automation. Also in this episode: Claas talks about their dealer network and we look at the first 9-months of large ag equipment sales for 2022.
As of Oct. 1, 2021, Eric Raby, former president and general manager of sales for Claas of America, assumed the position of senior vice president of the Americas Region at Claas.
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In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we take an initial look at the Dealer Business Outlook & Trends Report and what dealers are forecasting for 2025.