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May 2018 Tractor & Combine Analysis

Our industry is navigating some very choppy waters as international trade negotiations continue. Uncertainty has created caution in farmers’ spending recently and most likely will continue until there is some resolution to the trade talks now underway.
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Ag Equipment Intelligence

A Market to Watch: Organic Food Sales Reach Record $45.2B in 2017

Equipment dealers should keep a close eye on organic farming operations in their areas. This segment of agriculture continues to exhibit strong growth patterns, and American consumers increased their purchases of organic products once again in 2017, according to a recent survey from the Organic Trade Assn.
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Conversations in Ag

Farmer Steve Berger Discusses the Future of Agriculture

Steve Berger, a fourth-generation grain and hog producer in southeast Iowa, sat down with Ken Zuckerberg, then a senior research analyst in New York with Rabobank. The conversation provided Zuckerberg, who sees the industry from the perspective of a financial analyst, a chance to go eyeball-to-eyeball with a person in the trenches farming every day in Berger, a 2016 No-Till Innovator of the Year. The talk happened in the lobby at the 2018 National No-Tillage Conference in Louisville.
Steve Berger, a fourth-generation grain and hog producer in southeast Iowa, sat down with Ken Zuckerberg, then a senior research analyst in New York with Rabobank. The conversation provided Zuckerberg, who sees the industry from the perspective of a financial analyst, a chance to go eyeball-to-eyeball with a person in the trenches farming every day in Berger, a 2016 No-Till Innovator of the Year. The talk happened in the lobby at the 2018 National No-Tillage Conference in Louisville.
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Used Equipment Remarketing Roadmaps

[Podcast] The Impact of Farm Consolidation on Used Equipment Inventories

Casey Seymour of 21st Century Equipment and Moving Iron LLC is joined by Kevin Vandervort, used equipment manager for Hoober’s Inc, an 8-store Case IH dealer in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Casey Seymour of 21st Century Equipment and Moving Iron LLC is joined by Kevin Vandervort, used equipment manager for Hoober’s Inc, an 8-store Case IH dealer in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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Ag Equipment Intelligence

Interest Rates on Ag Loans Rise as Farm Income Continues to Slide

Results of Kansas City Federal Bank’s most recent survey of farm lenders shows that interest rates on farm loans have continued to inch higher. At the same time, the first quarter 2018 Agricultural Finance Monitor published by the St. Louis Fed indicates that farm income slipped for the 17th consecutive quarter.
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Ag Equipment Intelligence

Ag & Construction Lagging When It Comes to Digitization

A report from global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. maintains that, despite the “massive advances in computing power, data analysis and connectedness,” the agricultural and construction industries are lagging behind other sectors when it comes to “productivity gains associated with digitization.”
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