Our expert Casey Seymour of Moving Iron LLC addresses the following question: With the ability to shop inventory to death on the internet, what do you guys do to make your inventory stand out and separate it from everybody else?
I was curious to see what the price increase has been for combines over the past 3 model changes. I looked through the business system, locating customers who have rolled combines every year, trying to see how pricing has evolved over the last decade. What I found was not all that shocking, but at the same time I have to wonder how long trading the volume of equipment with high used pricing can be sustained.
Our expert Casey Seymour addresses the best way to price used equipment and encourages one reader to look at the on-farm auction to get rid of equipment upon retirement.
This is an exciting time in the farm equipment business. There is a generational paradigm shift happening both with ag equipment dealers and the producers. Retiring producers and those that have gone out of business have left the door open to expansion.
To be a good Remarketing Manager/Used Equipment Manager you have to understanding how to read and react to trends. You also need to be able to forecast trends based on the current environment so you can predict the future.
Inaccurate machine reconditioning can completely wreck inventory. If the estimate during the sales process is too low or something was missed, the end result could be a loser for the dealership. If the Recondition Estimate is exceeded, the unit could be sold for a loss.
Our expert Casey Seymour answers a reader's question about on valuing equipment for spring auctions in this latest installment of the "Ask the Expert: Remarketing Used Equipment" series.
It’s not a shock to anyone when I say over the last 5 years auction activity has greatly increased. At the end of 2014, used equipment inventories where at all-time highs. The auction market became a dumping ground for all kinds of equipment — late model, high hour and everything in between.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, Jason Webster, commercial agronomist with PTI Farm, breaks the results of PTI Farm’s 2024 HIgh Speed Planting Corn Study.
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