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High Crop Prices or High Crop Yields?

By Dave Kanicki posted on July 22, 2014 | Posted in Data & Forecasts
Last week, while visiting a large farming operation in Michigan, I had the opportunity to ask the brothers who own and operate the 14,000-acre enterprise, if given the choice, what would they prefer, high crop prices or high crop yields?
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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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George Russell
Technology for Profit

Why the Big Switch from PCs to Tablets?

By George Russell posted on July 1, 2014
The impetus for this month's column started with a comment from a dealer in one of our Currie Management Dealer Groups. At a recent meeting, he remarked, "Look around the room. Isn't it interesting that everyone who used a laptop computer a year ago now uses a tablet?"
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From the Desk of Dave Kanicki

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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Dan Crummett
Ahead of the Curve

Ag Robotics: Thinking in Smaller Chunks

By Dan Crummett posted on June 1, 2014
Take 5 minutes to visit www.dorhoutrd.com and click on “Prospero Robot Overview" (or see video below). In the short video you’ll see a one-off, 6-legged robot that’s capable of walking in a farm field, planting corn in ground not already-seeded, marking the seeded spot and moving on to plant again.
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