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Dealers Voice 6 Areas of Concern over FTC Rulings vs. Deere in Right-to-Repair Suits

Dealers Voice 6 Areas of Concern over FTC Rulings vs. Deere in Right-to-Repair Suits

Deere settled its larger potential risks as an equipment-maker but the ‘cost’ to dealers remains unknown. Regardless of color dealers are expressing concern over the slippery slope this settlement may mean to their investments & survival.

Farm Equipment News

  • Sitting Down with Innovator Gregg Sauder

    Last Friday, the Ag Equipment Intelligence editors were at the Morton-Illinois headquarters of 360 Yield with company founder and CEO Gregg Sauder. Sauder, who sold his Precision Planting company in 2012 for $250 million to Monsanto, is seeing success with his new company, and namely his invention of the 360 Rain, an autonomous system to irrigate and bring manure nutrients to the root of the corn.
  • Oxbo ISOBUS Technology On Triple Mergers

    With the introduction of its model year 2027 line of triple forage mergers, Oxbo is introducing a new standard feature - ISOBUS COMPATIBILITY. 

  • Using Sensors to Measure Impact of ‘Soil Health Management’ Systems

    Sand County Foundation, a national nonprofit conservation organization, is leveraging some cutting-edge precision technology to measure the true impacts of soil health management practices.
  • Deere’s FTC Settlement Not a ‘Decisive Loss’

    The used equipment market is shifting, says Andy Campbell, director of insights for TractorZoom. And while it’s not a total recovery, it is becoming more predictable.
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    How to Identify Your ‘Code of Success’

    This year, for our 2026 Summer Intern Cohort at Lessiter Media, we’re doing something we haven’t done before. We’re giving each of the interns a parting gift as they start to wrap up their summers with us. Something they can carry with them in their remaining studies and career.
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    How 3 Precision Specialists Go the Extra Mile to Achieve Greatness

    From sleeping inside a converted ambulance to multi-tasking from the sidelines of a softball game, here are 3 stories of precision specialists going the extra mile to keep their customers up and running.
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    What the Rubik Leader Learned from Dorothy on the Way to Oz

    In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy begins her journey in chaos. A tornado lifts her from the familiar and drops her into a strange world where nothing works the way she expects. This is the same emotional moment every leader experiences when promoted from an individual contributor to a leadership role. 

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    John Deere's Right-to-Repair Settlement: A New Chapter, Not the End of the Story

    In my view, this settlement represents neither a defeat nor a complete victory for either side. Instead, it marks the beginning of a new chapter in how manufacturers, dealers, independent repair providers and equipment owners will work together in the years ahead.

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2026 'Big Dealer' Report

2026 'Big Dealer' Report

Since 2011, the editors of Ag Equipment Intelligence in collaboration with the Machinery Advisors Consortium have compiled the annual "Big Dealer" Report to provide the ag equipment industry with a thorough, by-the-numbers analysis into the shifts in dealer ownership, along with insight into the implications these shifts have on the industry. It's the most detailed source of information on ownership changes and consolidation trends of North America's largest farm equipment dealers.

2026 Rural Lifestyle Dealer Trends & Outlook

2026 Rural Lifestyle Dealer Trends & Outlook

To paint a clearer picture of the new challenges and opportunities dealers are facing, Ag Equipment Intelligence has compiled the data from the 2026 report and compared it to previous years. This report also breaks down the latest data by dealers’ main tractor brand and by their number of employees.

The insights from this report are intended to help your business understand how to further penetrate the rural lifestyle equipment market and what this niche needs most from its equipment manufacturers and partners.

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Ukraine's Ag Equipment Needs in a Post-War Environment

Ukraine's Ag Equipment Needs in a Post-War Environment

The years-long uncertainty with its war with Russia has continued to complicate the geopolitical, economic and agricultural situations. The editors of Ag Equipment Intelligence have embarked on a truly aggressive custom research project that anticipates the opportunities and challenges ahead for the agricultural equipment market following the eventual resolution to the conflict’s end. 

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