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 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.
Vermeer Corp. has announced a new partnership agreement with Tubeline Manufacturing, which will help to expand the Vermeer full line of hay and forage tools to better serve customers in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec and Maritimes.
Hay equipment specialist Krone chalked up another set of record results in its financial year to the end of July 2018, with ag equipment revenues up more than 10% at €642.3 million ($730.4 million). Add in Krone’s larger commercial trailers business and the group breached €2 billion ($2.28 billion) turnover for the first time.
A significant increase in tillage equipment and seeder sales helped offset a sizeable drop in demand for hay tools — at least in part — as Austrian manufacturer Pottinger faced up to market headwinds.
The outlook for equipment dealers catering to the livestock segment of U.S. agriculture will gradually improve as 2013 progresses with projected prices for cattle, hogs, broilers and milk continuing to rise and, in some cases, hit record highs. But many dealers expect that sales of hay tools will lag until input costs show some semblance of balance.
As a recent round of acquisitions illustrates, recovery in farm machinery markets has not come soon enough for some manufacturers although their financial difficulties have presented useful expansion opportunities for businesses with healthier balance sheets.
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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.