Inflation, Interest Rates, Instability – everything in the news makes your immediate financial future feel like a gamble. Gambling has never been a good way to run your dealership, even when you have been on a 3 year winning streak!

In this episode of On the Record, we discuss how farmers and dealers view the recently announced collaboration agreement between Farmers Business Network and Greeneye Technology. In the Technology Corner, Noah Newman covers what majorline OEMs had to say about the future of autonomy with dealers at the 2023 Precision Farming Dealer Summit. Also in this episode, a look at CNH Industrial's fourth quarter earnings, the state of dealer M&A activity and Unverferth's acquisition of tillage equipment manufacturer Orthman Manufacturing.
 

In this episode of On the Record, Pinion Principal Marc Johnson forecasts 4-6% growth in large ag equipment sales in 2023. In the Technology Corner, Noah Newman takes a closer look at Verge Ag’s Equipment Explorer, which was launched at the 2023 Precision Farming Dealer Summit. Also in this episode, a preview of the 10th annual Precision Farming Dealer benchmark study and a look at ag retailer sprayer purchase plans for the year ahead.

Dealerships need to get prepared to answer to the growing demand for sustainability best practices across the supply chain. So what does sustainability mean for your dealership?

In this session, expert consultants in the equipment dealership industry, who have worked with dozens of dealerships facing M&A realities and decisions, will share stories from the road. In doing so, you will hear their insights and best practices as well as stories of what has worked well and what has led other dealerships toward deal success, struggles and/or stagnation.

Whether you have had a Dealership audit for years or are in the middle of your first or second, you will no doubt agree that the audit is expensive and time consuming and often results in a report with three- or six-month-old numbers you already knew. The OEM and the bank see value in your audit, so what kind of value should you be able to get?

If you are in business as a dealership, it should be a safe assumption that you have a Buy-Sell Agreement. But, has your Buy-Sell Agreement been stress-tested as much as your dealership has in the last few years? In this webinar, expert consultants in the farm equipment dealership industry, Cole Baker and Marc Johnson, shared their insights in assisting dealerships to update their agreements. This FREE webinar was brought to you by K•Coe Isom. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]