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Carman, Man. Category: Under $75 Million in Revenue. Carman, Manitoba, John Deere dealership Greenland Equipment’s focus on customer service and parts and service helps the business achieve a strong absorption rate and impressive return on assets.
By Kim Schmidt posted on July 13, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Used Equipment Remarketing
Carman, Manitoba, John Deere dealership Greenland Equipment’s focus on customer service and parts and service helps the business achieve a strong absorption rate and impressive return on assets.
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‘What? So What? Now What?’ Identifying & Adapting to Trends in Your Market

Consultant David Parker encourages dealers to go through the exercise of identifying trends in their marketplace, how those trends are going to impact their business and how they need to respond.
By Kim Schmidt posted on July 10, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance, Department Management
There’s no doubt that the ag market is changing. Whether it’s growing use of equipment leases, farms consolidating, farmers retiring, “new” buyers turning to used equipment, or some other trend, every dealer is facing a different market than they have in years past.
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Poll: Likelihood of Farm Bill being Signed by President

By Kim Schmidt posted on July 2, 2018
Both the House and the Senate have passed their versions of the 2018 Farm Bill and it now goes to committee to reconcile differences between the two versions so one bill can be presented to the president. Do you think the 2018 Farm Bill will be signed by President Trump before the current Farm Bill expires on Sept. 30?
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Wanted: Private Equity Investors?

By Kim Schmidt posted on July 2, 2018 | Posted in Manufacturer & Dealer Issues
What happens in the auto industry often finds its way into the farm equipment industry, and it’s no different with dealer consolidation. And while dealers have been merging and acquiring each other for years, recently there’s been a growing interest from private equity investors — both in the auto dealer world and our own
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From the Desk of Kim Schmidt

Can You Tell Your Employees to Grow Up?

By Kim Schmidt posted on June 19, 2018
Where do you draw the line with catering to new management styles for different generations of employees? Should you have to adapt to the preferences of a younger generation or should they be the ones adapting?
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Lobbying for Farm Equipment Dealers’ Interests

Tom Rosztoczy, president of Stotz Equipment, a 25-store John Deere dealership with locations in 8 western states, and Dan Scheuers, co-owner of Waupun Equipment, a 2-store New Holland and Massey Ferguson dealership in Wisconsin, sat down to talk in between appointments at the Equipment Dealers Assn. Legislative Fly-In in Washington D.C. in March. Both Rosztoczy and Scheuers are on the EDA Board of Directors.
By Kim Schmidt posted on June 9, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices
Tom Rosztoczy, president of Stotz Equipment, a 25-store John Deere dealership with locations in 8 western states, and Dan Scheuers, co-owner of Waupun Equipment, a 2-store New Holland and Massey Ferguson dealership in Wisconsin, sat down to talk in between appointments at the Equipment Dealers Assn. Legislative Fly-In in Washington D.C. in March. Both Rosztoczy and Scheuers are on the EDA Board of Directors.
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Waupun Equipment’s Jason Drews Talks About Real World Work at Their Dealership

Jason Drews and Jordan Shaw both work at Waupun Equipment, a 2-store New Holland and Massey Ferguson dealer in Wisconsin. Drews is a salesman, but got his start in the service department 15 years ago after graduating from Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC), Shaw is in his junior year at FVTC and works in the service department part time. The two sat down to talk about their training experiences and what real world work is like at their dealership.
By Kim Schmidt posted on June 9, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices
Jason Drews and Jordan Shaw both work at Waupun Equipment, a 2-store New Holland and Massey Ferguson dealer in Wisconsin. Drews is a salesman, but got his start in the service department 15 years ago after graduating from Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC), Shaw is in his junior year at FVTC and works in the service department part time. The two sat down to talk about their training experiences and what real world work is like at their dealership.
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Agri-Service President & KanEquip Regional Manager discuss their businesses

Clint Schnoor, president of Agri-Service, a large multi-location AGCO dealership headquartered in Idaho and Bryndon Meinhardt, a regional manager for KanEquip, an 8-store CNH dealer in Kansas, sat down to talk for the first time during the Precision Farming Dealer Summit in Louisville, Ky. Despite carrying different brands and covering different markets, the two discovered their businesses have more similarities than differences.
By Kim Schmidt posted on June 9, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices
Clint Schnoor, president of Agri-Service, a large multi-location AGCO dealership headquartered in Idaho and Bryndon Meinhardt, a regional manager for KanEquip, an 8-store CNH dealer in Kansas, sat down to talk for the first time during the Precision Farming Dealer Summit in Louisville, Ky. Despite carrying different brands and covering different markets, the two discovered their businesses have more similarities than differences.
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