In today’s newscast, AGCO reveals its Ideal combine to North America — the first “clean-sheet” design of an axial combine in the industry in decades. In this week’s Technology Corner segment, we take a look at the challenges dealers face in recruiting and retaining precision service technicians. We also take a look at how large ag equipment sales rebounded in May and how Deere’s retail sales compared to the industry average, the changes in machinery values on Illinois farms over the last 10 years and a deterioration of European dealer sentiment in June.

In today’s newscast, we report on CNH Industrial’s purchase of the Soil & Grass line of Kongskilde, the latest Ag Economy Barometer reading from Purdue University and the Center for Commercial Agriculture, dealers’ precision hiring plans for 2017 and the third quarter earnings reports for CNH Industrial and Trimble.