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Charlie Glass

August 2016 Tractor & Combine Analysis

By Charlie Glass posted on September 15, 2016 | Posted in Data & Forecasts
Each time that Farm Equipment surveys dealers used equipment continues to be among their biggest worries. The past effects of Section 179 Bonus Depreciation has filled dealer's lots with a large number of relatively new, low hour tractors, combines and other equipment and these units have had an effect upon the sale of new equipment.
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Kanicki
From the Desk of Dave Kanicki

Are You ‘Comfortable That It’s Bad?’

By Dave Kanicki posted on September 12, 2016 | Posted in Manufacturer & Dealer Issues
One of the more interesting comments I’ve read from an outsider looking into the current ag equipment environment came from an Aug. 17 report that quotes Karen Ubelhart, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence in New York. In assessing the current sales slump and the ongoing backlog of used farm machinery, Ubelhart said, “People are comfortable that it’s bad and that it will take a while. It’s not great, but they’re not bleeding. It’s just not getting better.”
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Lessiter
To the Point

A Dose of Perspective

By Mike Lessiter posted on September 5, 2016
Perspective often comes when and where you don’t expect it, including faraway lands. Our staff returned recently from our 3rd Annual National Strip-Tillage Conference in Bloomington, Ill., which drew a crowd of 351 from 22 states and 4 countries. Among the international attendees were two farm managers who traveled from Thailand to learn how to leap-frog their operation forward (farm practices in Thailand, they say, lag the U.S. by 50 years). The pair found us via Facebook, and reached out ahead of time so we could help them arrange on-farm visits ahead of the conference.
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Kanicki
From the Desk of Dave Kanicki

You Can’t Keep Up Either?

By Dave Kanicki posted on August 15, 2016 | Posted in Precision Ag Sales & Service
In putting together the special report on agricultural application technology that will appear in the September issue of Farm Equipment, our editors and contributors interviewed more than a dozen industry experts. These included growers, dealers, system developers and equipment manufacturers of precision farming technology.
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Lessiter
From the Desk of Mike Lessiter

Showing Off the ‘People’ Side of the Farm Equipment Business

By Mike Lessiter posted on August 1, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices
With Lessiter Media’s 35th anniversary celebration next week (we’re taking our staff and their spouses out for an overnight stay in the city), our team has been working on some special things here to commemorate the milestone. They’ve been chronicling memories, philosophies and visions from that tough start-up by my parents (Frank and Pam) in 1981, and how they got through that daunting first decade during a horrendous ag economy.
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