In the first part of this two-part episode of the Farm Equipment podcast, “Our Dealer Story” brought to you by HBS Systems, brothers Tom, Rob and Teddy Rosztoczy, along with their mother Diane, sat down Alan Stenum from the Farm Equipment team to shares their story of how the dealership became Stotz Equipment.

In this episode of the Farm Equipment podcast, “Our Dealer Story” brought to you by HBS Systems, Editor/Publisher Mike Lessiter gathered two award-winning equipment dealerships in Wisconsin, one green and one red, to discuss their origins and approaches to operating in the same competitive landscape.

Angela Lekatsas will succeed Graham Drake as president and chief executive officer of Cervus Equipment upon his planned retirement on May 15, 2019.

In this episode of the new Farm Equipment podcast, “Our Dealer Story” brought to you by HBS Systems, Editor/Publisher Mike Lessiter sits with Landis Stankievech, whose grandfather and great-uncle founded Trochu Motors, a large single-store AGCO dealership in Central Alberta.

In this episode of the new Farm Equipment podcast, “Our Dealer Story” brought to you by HBS Systems, Executive Editor Kim Schmidt sits down with Wayne and Steve Hunt of H&R Agri-Power, a 19-store Case IH dealership with stores in Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

In this episode of the new Farm Equipment podcast, “Our Dealer Story” brought to you by HBS Systems, Editor/Publisher Mike Lessiter sits with Ed Heim, the second-generation owner of Hoxie Implement Co., a 3-store Case IH dealership in Hoxie, Kansas.

In this episode of the new Farm Equipment podcast, “Our Dealer Story” brought to you by HBS Systems, Executive Editor Kim Schmidt sits with Gary Reynolds, the second-generation owner of Reynolds Farm Equipment, a 7-store John Deere dealership based in Atlanta, Ind.

All aspects of the ag industry have been consolidating over the last several years, and it seems to have picked up recently. This is no different for farm equipment dealerships. Some of the consolidation is being led by the major equipment manufacturers, some of it is in response to farm consolidation (see “Farms Shrinking in Number, Growing in Size,” page 12), and still some is due to dealer owners exiting the industry.

There comes a time when a non-family leader is the right course. As ownership grays in our industry, it takes a confident, mature owner to know when to deploy a new field general.