Everyone who has ever taken the athletic field or courts has heard a coach bark these famous words ... “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

It’s been just over a year since Case IH’s revised sales and service agreement was making waves. At that time, Matthew Larsgaard, president/CEO of the North Dakota Implement Dealers Assn., highlighted 11 provisions that represent major concerns in the agreement that dealers needed to be aware of. Since then, dealer purity issues haven’t been making much noise.

Two weeks ago in this space we posed the question, “Are equipment leases trending?” Along with that blog, we conducted an informal poll of farm equipment dealers asking whether or not their sale of machinery leases increased during the past 12 months.

“The future of farm equipment distribution in North America is being reshaped in ways and by means that many dealers could not have imagined a decade ago.”