A traditional Kagamiwari ceremony, in which senior managers of Kubota Corp. and local dignitaries use wooden hammers to open Sake barrels, marked the official opening of Kubota’s first European production plant.
Kubota dealer Reliable Equipment of Hernando, Miss., will be breaking ground on a new facility that will expand the dealership's showroom to more than 10,000 square feet.
15-store farm equipment dealer GreenMark Equipment closed its Goshen, Ind., store on Sept. 4., and will be relocating employees to other area locations.
Jungclaus Implement, a Glencoe, Minn., dealer specializing in farm equipment and lawn and garden equipment, will now offer JCB's equipment line including wheel loaders, rough terrain forklifts, Fastrac tractors, skid steer loaders and more.
North American large ag equipment sales declines accelerated in August. 4WD tractors sales saw the biggest decline at down 54.7% year-over-year (down 30.1% last month), combines sales dropped 28.1% (down 22% last month) and row-crop tractor sales declined 30.9% vs. the same period last year (down 22.9% last month), according to the latest unit sales figures released by the Assn. of Equipment Manufacturers on Sept. 10.
Austrian machinery manufacturer Pöettinger reported another year of record sales as its U.S. arm exhibited at the 2015 Farm Progress Show for the first time.
While attending the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill., on Sept. 1-3, Morningstar equity analyst Kwame Webb said during his visits with the three major equipment manufacturers, three major trends emerged.
AGCO Corp.’s premium tractor unit, Fendt, believes it has identified a niche in the market that will be filled by a new range featuring a number of first-time technologies.
The level of early orders in late summer and early fall for farm machinery is considered a reliable indicator for farmers’ buying intentions for the coming year. That being the case, 2016 doesn’t look particularly promising.
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