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Kirby Manufacturing Evolves from Dealer to Manufacturer While Navigating California's Dairy Industry

Ric Kirby explains the company’s evolution from dealer to manufacturer, some entertaining sales and demo techniques, their growing international business and memories of the day the team rallied behind a commitment to one another to weather a financial hardship.
September 10, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance, Manufacturer News
Ric Kirby discusses how his family and company navigated the California dairy industry and went from manufacturing the first self-unloading forage wagon to other products, including a vehicle to assist presidential customers.
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U.S. Farm Equipment Dealership Marketing Expenditures Survey: 2018

First-Ever Farm Equipment Dealership Marketing Survey Finds Digital Practices Yield Best Returns on Investment

The most popular response was subscriptions and association memberships, followed by dealer peer groups. The least popular responses were vendor-supplier training and webinars. First of its kind Marketing Expenditures Survey reveals surprises, confirms suspicions for industry practices.
By Alex Zank posted on August 30, 2018 | Posted in Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance, Dealership Marketing
Many ag equipment dealers have seized on digital marketing opportunities and found them to be very effective tools as part of their overall marketing efforts, according to the findings of a first of its kind marketing survey.
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Industry Consolidation Part 3

What’s Driving Consolidation Among Farm Equipment Dealers?

Farmer consolidation and growing capital requirements for dealers has contributed to the need for dealerships to expand and grow.
By Kim Schmidt posted on August 29, 2018 | Posted in Dealers on the Move, Operations & Finance, Dealer Succession
All aspects of the ag industry have been consolidating over the last several years, and it seems to have picked up recently. This is no different for farm equipment dealerships. Some of the consolidation is being led by the major equipment manufacturers, some of it is in response to farm consolidation (see “Farms Shrinking in Number, Growing in Size,” page 12), and still some is due to dealer owners exiting the industry.
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2018 Dealership of the Year: Reynolds Farm Equipment

Revisiting the Hard Times of the 1980s

July 13, 2018 | Posted in Operations & Finance, Dealer News
Owner Gary Reynolds and President Angela Hungate of Reynolds Farm Equipment (Farm Equipment’s 2018 Dealership of the Year) reflect on the challenges the dealership faced during the 1980’s agricultural crisis and the tenacity that got them through it.
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