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Farm Equipment Sales Continue to Boom

Tomorrow the Assn. of Equipment Manufacturers will release June farm equipment sales figures, and if the current trends hold, they should be hefty as North American sales of large ag equipment continued to skyrocket through the first 5 months of 2013.
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How Dealers Deal with Ag's Business Cycles

With the exception of 2009 — a year that, in retrospect, wasn’t all that bad for sales of farm machinery — dealers have experienced 5 remarkable years of consistently strong unit sales. This has surprised many dealers, even the most optimistic ones. A Colorado dealer told Farm Equipment recently, “I’ve lived through two bad cycles (in the 1980s and ‘90s) so I’m really enjoying this one.”
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New Equipment Inventories Remain on Low Side, Used Still Too High

Based on the results of the March 2013 'Dealer Sentiments & Business Conditions Update'? survey, a little over 20% of North American farm equipment dealers say their new equipment inventory is still too low, while 43% of dealers are reporting the used equipment backlog remains too high. The survey results were released last Thursday.
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Planning a Dealer Auction

Moving used equipment and keeping inventory fresh is vital to the financial success of any dealership. However, it's no secret that doing so can be easier said than done. For Johnson Tractor the solution is a dealer-run auction at its Juda, Wis., location.
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Deere's Combine Allocation for 2012 is Not Big News

A report from Bloomberg last week that on plans by Deere & Co. to allocate combines in 2012 created somewhat of a stir in the ag equipment business last week. But according to at least one analyst, Deere had earlier talked about the allocation program on various occasions and it shouldn't be considered as "big news?"
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Aging Hardens Tires to Cornstalks

Paul Butler, who no-tills 400 acres of corn and soybeans near Macon, Ill., says he'll need new tractor tires in 2 years, so he's buying a set this fall and putting them in the shed to age. A set can cost him around $6,000.
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