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Equipment Sales Decline Accelerates

October 16, 2015 | Posted in Data & Forecasts
U.S. and Canada combined large ag equipment sales declines accelerated in August, with 4WD tractor sales down 54.7% (down 30.1% in July), combine sales down 28.1% (down 22% in July) and row-crop tractor sales down 30.9% vs. the same period of last year (down 22.9% in July), according to the latest unit sales figures from the Assn. of Equipment Manufacturers.
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Dealers Expect Another Year of Sluggish Sales

Low commodity prices and high used equipment inventories will continue impacting new equipment sales in the year ahead.
By Dave Kanicki posted on October 16, 2015 | Posted in Data & Forecasts
If there’s an upside to how dealers view their business prospects for 2016, it’s that more dealers expect revenue from new equipment sales to be at least as good or better in the year ahead than they were in 2015. Overall, 56.9% of dealers see revenues improving or flat for 2016.
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Dealers Urged to ‘Stock Up’

By Dave Kanicki posted on October 12, 2015 | Posted in Data & Forecasts
Recent telephone calls with dealers and their written comments that have accompanied the various surveys we conduct between Farm Equipment and Ag Equipment Intelligence, are really quite revealing. Despite the current situation of excess used inventory and farmers slowing the spending on new equipment, dealers say they’re getting pushed to order more new product than they can sell — profitably.
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