North American farm equipment dealers see solid sales through the end of this year, but are realistically expecting 2014 sales revenues next year to be about the same as 2013 or possibly somewhat lower.
Bruce Daughters has been named regional manager at Vanderfield Pty Ltd. in Queensland, Australia. He will be based in Toowoomba and will provide leadership in the development and deployment of the business plan for the eastern Queensland operations.
Debt-to-asset and debt-to-equity ratios are traditional measures of the farm business sectors financial solvency. Based on forecasts of the value of farm business assets and debt, the sectors debt-to-asset ratio is expected to decline from an estimated 10.7 percent at the end of 2012 to 10.2 percent by the end of 2013.
Deere & Company announced plans to purchase an Iowa company that manufactures planters. Bauer Built Manufacturing has partnered with Deere to make John Deere and Bauer co-branded planters since 2002. Bauer makes 44- to 120-feet ultra-wide DB Series planters at its plant in Paton, Iowa.
If you run a small or medium-sized business these days and you're hip to the cloud, you probably use QuickBooks Online (QBO) for your financial accounting. And if you're anything like me, you've run into problems.
Stotz Equipment, a 23-store operation headquartered in Avondale, Ariz., now has a systematic means of identifying future talent through the use of depth charts. Employees are incentivized to add someone they know to depth charts.
We’ve consistently made money over the years,” Jeff says about Lake County International, a single-store Case IH dealership in Madison, S.D. “All of sudden we go from $12 million in sales in 2008 to $18 million in 2009. How do you plan for that sort of thing?”
I think the timing of our renovation project was perfect, says Jeff Bloom, co-owner of Lake County International, a single-store Case IH dealership in Madison, S.D. He says the culture of the dealership is built on service, and the store expansion, which more than doubled the size of the entire facility, gives the dealership the opportunity to expand its service and parts operations.
Clean up continues at the scene of a weekend fire that destroyed the offices of a Logan County business. The fire started early Sunday morning at Central Illinois Ag, a local Case IH dealership in Atlanta. Fire officials say a passerby on the interstate spotted flames just after two a.m. Dozens of local and neighboring firefighters came out to battle the blaze, but it still took hours to get it under control.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we look at President Trump's tariff reduction on ag equipment, the latest dealer sales forecasts, and how high input costs are keeping farmer sentiment down.
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