Farm Equipment editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great farm machinery industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by CLEANFIX.
H&R Agri-Power, a 17-store Case IH dealership headquartered in Hopkinsville, Ky., developed its own quoting and appraisal tool, Power EQ. The tool has streamlined the appraisal process for used equipment and provides the sales team the information they need right at their fingertips.
We needed a consistent way to quote equipment to our customers,” says the CFO of H&R Agri-Power, a 17-store Case IH dealer headquartered in Hopkinsville, Ky. “We also needed a consistent way to collect data on trade-ins, and we needed to be able to document the bill of approval.
Ross Morgan, a farm equipment dealership lifer, is a face you’ll still see at many industry events, including dealer association meetings and the Dealership Minds Summits.
With 75% of customers financing their wholegoods purchases, H&R Agri-Power’s Finance & Insurance Manager Josh Arnall focuses on structuring plans that work for the farmer and the dealership.
Josh Arnall is a numbers guy who likes planning and solving problems. As the finance and insurance manager for H&R Agri-Power, his day-to-day is full of managing the numbers and solving problems, but his planning usually is sacrificed to what he calls “the tyranny of the urgent.”
As the Wholesale Division Manager of H&R Agri-Power, Dave Gibson is the resident expert on used equipment. He divides his time between appraising trade-ins from the sales team, shopping for wholesale buyers and keeping a general eye on the used equipment market, searching for any trends or spikes in interest that could give the dealership an edge.
The 2017 Dealership Minds Summit, held at the La Vista Hotel & Conference Center in Omaha, Neb., Aug. 1-2, drew a sold out crowd of 212 attendees, including 100 different dealerships across 31 states and 3 provinces.
One of the fun things about our coverage of the farm equipment business is discovering and sharing how each of the various cogs perform together in the larger “machine.” On each of the Dealership Minds special issues, we’ve had subscribers laugh about how they learned something they didn’t know about the role of a person they’d worked 10 yards away from for a decade, sometimes more.
Rick Rusin, used equipment remarketer and salesman working out of CVE's Berlin, Vt., store, hasn't quite had a year under his belt in the equipment business.
We're saddened to report the death of Chris Schott, one of the managers at Kern Machinery, who was featured in our Dealership Minds report in the February 2016 issue of Farm Equipment.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we take a look at Titan International’s 2024 results, and the tire manufacturers outlook for this year.
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