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New Session Added to 2023 Dealership Minds Summit

Richard J. Bryan -- Speaker, Author and Business Growth Coach -- is making his first appearance before dealers of all colors at the DMS. Come ready to work! This interactive session will get you and the other dealers at your table participating, sharing and discussing the solutions that will improve your sales leadership effectiveness to create margins of time necessary to “work on” your growing business.


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Farm Equipment Magazine Receives National Recognition

Award-Winning Coverage of Electric Machinery and Service Management

The American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) recently announced the winners of its 2023 Azbee Awards recognizing outstanding work by B2B, trade, association and professional publications. The editors of Farm Equipment Magazine received national and regional recognition in several categories for their coverage on the Electrification of Ag (Technical Article) and Service Management (Single Topic Coverage by a Team)


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Right to Repair

Dealer Efforts ‘Water Down’ Colorado R2R Law

New law will have minimal impact on dealers, but non-legislative solutions continue to be better for the industry
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed the Consumer Right To Repair Agricultural Equipment bill into law on April 25, making it the first U.S. right to repair bill focused on ag equipment to be approved by the legislature and signed by a governor.
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AgRevolution (Vincennes, Ind.) - May 2023 Farm Equipment Store Visit

Kim Schmidt and Mike Lessiter hit the road in May 2023 for a couple of dealer visits in Indiana. One of them was our first visit to AgRevolution’s newest store in Vincennes, Ind., which opened in the summer of 2022. For those unfamiliar, AgRevolution is the moniker of the 7 company stores owned and operated by AGCO since the fall of 2020. The following is a slideshow of some photos taken during that visit.

Read more at "Company Store Observations ... AGCO’s Ag Revolution"

2017 Equipment Dealers Assn. Dealer-Manufacturer Relations Survey

In early June, the Equipment Dealers Assn. (EDA) released the results of its annual Dealer-Manufacturer Relations Survey. Through this study, equipment dealers rated the companies whose products they represent on 11 key categories of dealership operations and support.

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High Speed Compact Discs: U.S. Market Overview — A new study from Ag Equipment Intelligence, including primary research, of this newer farm equipment practice from Europe and its entrance into the U.S. farm equipment marketing.

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How New Equipment Technologies are Reshaping Farming

How New Equipment Technologies are Reshaping Farming

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For decades, farmers equated machine control with having two hands on the steering wheel, navigating their field on instinct and tradition. But the next generation of machine automation is imminent, offering the ag industry promising, yet unproven opportunities. View
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Brand Loyalty in the Farm Equipment Business (PDF)

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Every three years since 2011, Ag Equipment Intelligence editors have extensively surveyed farmers across 12 states encompassing the Corn Belt (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Missouri), Lake States (Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin) and Northern Plains (Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota) regions of the U.S. to gauge the level of loyalty they hold toward equipment. The culmination of a nearly a decade-long study, Ag Equipment Intelligence has now combined this extensive primary research into an insightful, comprehensive and unique dealership management report, Brand Loyalty in the Farm Equipment Business. 

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Brand Loyalty in the Farm Equipment Business

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Every three years since 2011, Ag Equipment Intelligence editors have extensively surveyed farmers across 12 states encompassing the Corn Belt (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Missouri), Lake States (Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin) and Northern Plains (Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota) regions of the U.S. to gauge the level of loyalty they hold toward equipment. The culmination of a nearly a decade-long study, Ag Equipment Intelligence has now combined this extensive primary research into an insightful, comprehensive and unique dealership management report, Brand Loyalty in the Farm Equipment Business. 

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2017 Farm Catalog - US

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Farm Equipment is a controlled-circulation trade publication serving retail dealers of tractors, implements and/or related farm machinery in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Additionally, Farm Equipment serves retail dealers of shortline machinery, wholesalers and distributors of tractors, implements and/or related machinery and manufacturer’s representatives.

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2015 Benchmarking No-Till Farming in the U.S. (PDF)

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