8-store AGCO and Claas dealer Ohio Ag Equipment informed customers on May 17 it is ending its distribution arrangement with AGCO. The letter to customers said the dealer and OEM mutually decided to part ways and the dealership is working "diligently with AGCO and Class of America to find alternative distribution and dealership options to continue to support" its customers.
The Big Dealer Report has become the “go-to” resource for understanding the consolidation in farm equipment dealerships and the changes required for scale to be successful.
In response to ongoing requests from both dealers and manufacturers about North American ag machinery demographics and the economic importance of the industry, the editors of Farm Equipment commissioned a new annual report for 2023 via the Farm Equipment 100™.
In this episode of On The Record, we examine the preliminary results of the 2023 Ag Equipment Intelligence Big Dealer report. In the Technology Corner, Noah Newman takes a look at FarmWave's harvest loss technology. Also in this episode: European investment comes to a Manitoba dealership, the majors' 2022 investments and acquisitions and why John Deere and Case IH are going for integrated solutions in their tech stacks. This episode of On The Record is brought to you by Agrisolutions.
This blog was posted in response to Frank Lessiter’s article, “133 Right-to-Repair Concerns -- Growers Get Loud,” that was a follow-up to a unique content project between Lessiter Media’s farm equipment and grower divisions. To view the original work, click here to review the arguments for dealers/manufacturers (Executive Editor Kim Schmidt) and growers (Grower Division Editorial Chairman Frank Lessiter).
Dealer consolidation has long been a mainstay of the farm equipment industry, and the recently released 2022 Big Dealer Report suggests consolidation is continuing its rapid pace.
The editors of Farm Equipment, with the support of Verge Ag, have released a new online resource of the farm equipment industry’s largest dealers. Known as the Farm Equipment Dealer 100TM, the content is an interactive digital representation of the 100 largest dealers by locations compiled annually by Ag Equipment Intelligence and Machinery Advisors Consortium.
A little over a week ago, I received an email from a lawyer who had reached out to me in the past looking for some information about the farm equipment industry. He was passing along the antitrust suit that was filed against Deere in the U.S. District Court in Chicago.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, Jason Webster, commercial agronomist with PTI Farm, breaks the results of PTI Farm’s 2024 HIgh Speed Planting Corn Study.
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