With the used equipment issue upon us and dealers and OEM's struggling to solve this issue, I would ask all of us if our sales staff is properly trained to sell used equipment?
Source: 2015 Farm Equipment Dealers Business Outlook & Trends
Nearly one-half of North American farm equipment dealers are expecting that full-year revenues from the sale of new equipment in 2014 will be down vs. 2013. This is about the same percentage of dealers who are projecting declining revenues in the year ahead.
Never before seen in print, here are 10 summaries of ¨the ‘most-viewed’ online columns from Farm Equipment’s twice-a-month E-WATCH e-newsletter during the past year.
Never before seen in print, here are 10 summaries of the most-viewed online columns from Farm Equipment's twice-a-month E-WATCH e-newsletter during the past year.
With used equipment building up on many farm equipment dealers’ lots over the last several months, dealers are now less willing to accept trade-ins on high-horsepower equipment. According to the 34th UBS Agricultural Dealer survey, more than half (56%) of all dealers surveyed are "less willing" to accept used high- horsepower equipment trade-ins
In today's newscast we look at the results of UBS Investment Research's 34th Dealer Survey, an update on Western Canada's crop and sales outlook for 2014, how the rail car shortage is impacting farmers in the Upper Midwest and Titan International and Valmont Industries second quarter results.
Brandt Agricultural Products Ltd. has announced that P&K Midwest has opened up 3 new locations, as Brandt authorized dealers. With 9 locations throughout Iowa, P&K Midwest is an authorized John Deere dealer that specializes in industrial, agricultural, turf & utility, and AMS products.
Barry Pollard — he’s the ‘P’ in P&K Equipment — probably took a big leap of faith when he hired me in 2006 to oversee his 4 John Deere dealerships in Oklahoma. I was 29 years old at the time and he said he wanted to make his stores operate as one organization and to start growing the business. Each store had a manager and operated independently at that time.
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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