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Dr. Jim Weber
Business of Selling

Record Farm Income and Impending Dealership Failure

By Dr. Jim Weber posted on February 8, 2011
When the final count for 2010 is complete, the amount of harvested corn could be an all time record; and at a minimum, the recent harvest should rank in the top five years of harvested corn with the other top five years coming from the preceding four years. With five years of record production, one would expect supplies to be high, and demand to be slowing. But just the opposite is occurring.
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Dr. Jim Weber
The Business of Selling

Sitting in the Dealership

By Dr. Jim Weber posted on December 23, 2010
In response to my first article in Farm Equipment, I received the following e-mail from a dealer that summarizes many of the trials and tribulations afflicting ag dealers and their sales management team in this time of prosperity.
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