This Producer Price Index (PPI) for ag equipment and parts illustrates the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.
Ag Equipment Intelligence editors have compiled information on shortline dealers in the Corn Belt. This region is defined by USDA as the states of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
This map, broken out by USDA Farm Production Regions, illustrates the number of dealerships by state/region through a May 2022 analysis of unique addresses of equipment dealerships in Farm Equipment magazine’s by-request circulation database.
According to the results of the latest Strip-Till Operational Practices Benchmark Study from Strip-Till Farmer, the average strip-tiller’s yields outperformed both the U.S. average and their no-till counterparts in 2021.
Ag Equipment Intelligence has gathered financial data from the filings of the ag industry’s key publicly-traded manufacturers and compiled its own list of these companies’ executives’ compensations, now updated for the 2021 financial year.
According to the results of the 2022 Equipment Dealers Assn. Dealer-Manufacturer Relations Report, Kubota’s overall score rose to 4.59, the first time its average score has risen in the last 8 years.
According to the results of the latest Ag Economy Barometer update from Purdue University, the Farm Capital Index showed a reading of 35, the lowest reading in the last 6 years.
According to the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), 3,185 businesses in the “Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers” (NAICS classification 423820) received a total of $637.77 million in 2020 PPP loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, Deere Director of Investor Relations Josh Beal told JP Morgan analysts that the OEM is confident it will be “producing to demand” in fiscal year 2025.