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Taking a Snapshot of What Dealers are Thinking

By Dave Kanicki posted on July 8, 2014 | Posted in Data & Forecasts
If you were to only look at the unit sales numbers that the Assn. of Equipment Manufacturers makes available each month, you might that think that business for farm equipment dealers is looking pretty dismal at the moment. But as I've pointed out many times in the past, things almost always look bad when you compare them to the best years you've ever had.
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U.S. Farmers Plant Record Soybean Crop, Less Corn

July 1, 2014 | Posted in Data & Forecasts
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Farmers planted 84.8 million acres of soybeans, which was nearly 11 percent more than last year's 76.5 million acres. Among the states that planted record amounts of the crop were Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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Avoiding the Knee-Jerk Reactions of the 1980s

By Dave Kanicki posted on June 23, 2014 | Posted in Data & Forecasts
Besides commodity prices and the weather, the topic of land values has probably garnered the most attention from the ag community in recent years (though in recent months "Big Data" seems to be catching up). Of course, anyone who was around in the early 1980s has an instant knee-jerk reaction to almost any news of a slowdown or dropoff in farmland values.
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