Johnson Tractor has announced the acquisition of A.A. Anderson marking a significant expansion in the north Chicagoland area, that will allow the company to serve all market segments including consumer, construction and agriculture primarily with the Kubota brand.

Hlavinka Equipment Co., with headquarters in East Bernard, Texas, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell select assets related to existing Kubota dealership operations in Rosenberg and Bay City to Lansdowne Moody Co.

With this recent transaction, Ritchie Implement now has 4 dealership locations operating in Cobb, Darlington, Barneveld and Lancaster, Wis.

As dealer consolidation continues among North American farm equipment dealers, Ag Equipment Intelligence will continually update industry mergers & acquisitions, dealership openings and closings as they occur.

On Jan. 17, the High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal reported that Bucklin Tractor and Implement Co. (BTI), Bucklin, Kan., will take ownership of Great Bend Farm Equipment, Great Bend, Kan.

If you are in business as a dealership, it should be a safe assumption that you have a Buy-Sell Agreement. But, has your Buy-Sell Agreement been stress-tested as much as your dealership has in the last few years? In this webinar, expert consultants in the farm equipment dealership industry, Cole Baker and Marc Johnson, shared their insights in assisting dealerships to update their agreements. This FREE webinar was brought to you by K•Coe Isom. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]

John Deere filed a response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit seeking to block the company’s planned purchase of Precision Planting from the The Climate Corp.

Green Diamond Equipment and Reddin Equipment have announced their plans to merge and will operate as Green Diamond Equipment, effective Oct. 28, according to the JournalPioneer.com.