Current USDA forecasts show declines in U.S. average farm prices for major U.S. field crops—corn, soybeans, wheat, and cotton—of 4 to 19 percent in 2014/15. For corn, soybeans, and wheat, this would be the second consecutive year of declining prices.

If sales of farm equipment soften in 2014 as many are suggesting, industry veteran Jim Tibbles views it as getting back to normal levels, rather than a decline.

During the 63rd Annual Fall Convention of the Farm Equipment Manufacturers Assn. on October 22, Mike Lessiter, Farm Equipment/Ag Equipment Intelligence, was elected to serve a three-year term on the Association's Board of Directors, representing the Supplier Section. Lessiter is president of Lessiter Publications, Inc., Brookfield, Wis., an agricultural media company founded by his parents, Frank and Pam, in 1981.

Trelleborg, global developer and supplier of tire and complete wheel solutions for the agricultural and materials handling industries, received the prestigious AGCO EAME 2012 SUPPLIER OF THE YEAR AWARD in the category “Collaboration� during a ceremony held at the AGCO Fendt facility in Marktoberdorf, Germany on 25 September 2012.

John Deere Credit Inc., the financing arm of equipment supplier John Deere, aims to raise C$150 million (US$144.2 million) from an offering a 3-year bonds maturing in October 2014, according to people familiar with the matter.

We need to understand what is important to the customer, what drives his purchase decisions and what differentiates you and your dealership from the others.

During the 2012 Farm Equipment Manufacturers Assn. (FEMA) Spring Clinic in Biloxi, Miss., on March 28-30, Ag Equipment Intelligence met with executives from the supply chain to gauge their insights into what wholegoods manufacturers' build schedules look like.

U.S. corn supplies later this year will be about 6.5% smaller than previously forecast amid strong export and ethanol demand and a disappointing harvest last year, analysts say.