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Strongest El Niño In 50 Years

By Kim Schmidt posted on July 23, 2015
In today’s newscast we look at how El Niño is impacting the U.S. growing season, an update on Titan Machinery, the results of the latest Precision Farming Dealer benchmark survey and Kubota’s fiscal 2015 financial results.
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Farm Equipment Dealers Land on Capitol Hill

During the NAEDA Legislative Fly-In, dealers met with Congressional representatives to stress the importance of how policy impacts their businesses.
By Kim Schmidt posted on July 16, 2015 | Posted in Manufacturer & Dealer Issues

Farm Equipment dealers from across the U.S. and from all colors, converged in Washington, D.C., May 20-21 for the 12th Annual North American Equipment Dealers Assn. Legislative Fly-In.


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Dealership of the Year 2015: Salem Farm Supply Inc. Salem, N.Y.

Category: Under $75 Million in Revenues
By Kim Schmidt posted on July 16, 2015 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance, Dealer Succession
Carole Lewis, president of Salem Farm Supply, didn’t plan on making her living as a farm equipment dealer, but life had different plans for her. Her father, Philip Lewis, purchased Salem Farm Supply in 1988 from the original owner. Philip was an investment banker from New York City who had moved to the area intending to buy a business. One day, he came in to Salem Farm Supply looking to buy a tractor, and he ended up buying the dealership, Lewis says.
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Abe Hughes Leaves New Holland

By Kim Schmidt posted on June 30, 2015
In the latest 'On The Record' newscast we looked at management changes at New Holland, how close Deere is to its sales goal of $50 billion by 2018, AEF's new wireless in-field communication task force and dealers' outlook on used equipment inventories.
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Is Fraud Impacting Your Dealership?

By Kim Schmidt posted on June 15, 2015 | Posted in Operations & Finance
Can you trust your employees? Better yet, should you trust your employees? During a recent trip to the East Coast to visit a few different dealerships, two dealers told me about problems they had with employees stealing from them. If this was a problem for these two dealers, I wondered how widespread the issue really is.
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Deere 2Q Equipment Sales Fall 20%

By Jaime Elftman and Kim Schmidt posted on May 22, 2015
In today’s newscast we look at John Deere’s second quarter and Cervus’ first quarter earnings reports, a significant merger between two specialty equipment dealerships, as well as several other “Dealers on the Move,” the impact of declining farmland values and, from the Technology Corner, recent strides in ISOBUS conformance testing.
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