I had the chance to catch up with Clint Brauer, the co-founder and head of innovation of Greenfield Robotics. The company’s autonomous bots are sold out for 2026.
I had the chance to catch up with Clint Brauer, the co-founder and head of innovation of Greenfield Robotics. The company’s autonomous bots are sold out for 2026.
Our monthly Dealer Sentiments & Business Conditions survey has started asking dealers for their 2026 forecasts. The initial outlook is for sales to be down 10% year-over-year in 2026. Dealers latest forecast is for 2025 sales to be down 12% on average year-over-year.
The Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois tracks machinery costs every two years. Its latest update was released earlier this month.
According to the newest Sandhills Global market reports, asking prices for used tractors and combine harvesters on TractorHouse.com and other Sandhills platforms are trending down. Both markets posted monthly and year-over-year decreases in August.
The tariffs imposed by the Trump administration at a rate of 50% to Brazilian products will completely interrupt all machinery exports to the American market, according to Cristina Zanella, director of Competitiveness, Economy and Statistics at the Brazilian Assn. of Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers (Abimaq).
The U.S. Department of Commerce recently announced on Aug. 15 that it would be adding 407 new tariff lines to the Section 232 steel/aluminum tariff lists — this includes many items made by farm equipment manufacturers, as well as key components and parts.
On Friday, August 22, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell in his annual address at the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, symposium, said conditions “may warrant adjusting our policy stance,” suggesting a rate cut is likely coming in September.
We head inside the Varied Industries tent at the 2025 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill., for a look at InnerPlant’s groundbreaking CropVoice technology. The seed technology company launched the first-of-its-kind platform, powered by a network of plots featuring InnerSoy.
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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