If your farm customers are holding off buying that new piece of equipment because they're concerned about rising costs, you can believe them, especially if you're in Iowa.
How optimistic are you about the remainder of 2012? Rate your feelings from 0-10 and explain. (with 0 being not at all optimistic and 10 being extremely optimistic).
Cervus Equipment Corp. (TSX: CVL), one of John Deere's largest dealer groups in North America, held its Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders on April 25, 2012 where it re-elected Peter, Lacey, Graham Drake, Don Bell, Steven Collicutt and Gary Harris, and elected Larry Benke to serve as Directors of the Company.
If you were to ask any of Torgerson's top management about the most important aspect of farm equipment retailing these days -- those operations that, if not given particular attention, can spell dealership failure -- to a person they'll point directly at two things: turning used equipment and service and parts absorption rate.
To say that Larry Roeder and his wife Susan Sommers were thinking outside of the box when they designed and built the new Hiawatha Implement store in Hiawatha, Kan., would be an understatement. The new John Deere dealership combines decorative elements unlike any typically found in an equipment dealership with the utility of a high functioning facility aimed at improving the overall efficiency of the business.
It seems many North American farm equipment dealers are surprising even themselves when it comes to how sales are holding up through the first part of 2012.
While total 2012-13 U.S. crop receipts are forecast to slip by 4%, total planted acreage is expected to be up by 3.6% for the year, according to the USDA.
At the 2026 Farm Progress Show, Franklin Peitz, Digital Product Marketing Lead with John Deere Operations Center reassures growers that they have the right to their own data.
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