North American equipment dealers expect the solid sales levels of commercial and consumer equipment experienced in recent years to maintain an upward trend in the year ahead, according to the results of Rural Lifestyle Dealer’s most recent survey.
Compared to dealers carrying other major brands of equipment, and even the independents that specialize in shortline products, Kubota dealers are easily the most optimistic going into 2017 — by a long shot.
The Memphis, Tenn.-based operations of Krone, one of Europe’s leading hay equipment manufacturers, made a significant contribution to the company’s global sales growth in the 2014-15 financial year ended July 31, in the face of weakening markets.
Despite increasing farm commodity prices, particularly grain and dairy, the major farm equipment makers — AGCO, CNH and John Deere — are forecasting flat to moderately rising sales of ag equipment in 2011 compared with last year.
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