For 13 years, I have worked in the ag equipment business. Along the way, I have had many mentors and trustworthy people teach me everything I know. One reoccurring theme has been differing opinions between the auction market and the retail market.
To say this has been a challenging year would be a gross understatement. In areas of the Corn Belt, the growing season was cursed with too much rain and now not enough.
Data points to large farms getting bigger and the number of "hobby farms" or rural lifestyle property owners growing in number, not size. So this leaves the producer in the middle.
Earlier this year I wrote an article titled “The Hangover.” The article talks about the amount of used equipment on the market from Model Years 2010-14.
Earlier this year I wrote an article titled “The Hangover.” The article talks about the amount of used equipment on the market from Model Years 2010-14.
I wish I was writing about a wild weekend in Las Vegas, waking up with a Tiger in my room and having to explain to Mike Tyson how we got it, but I’m not. The hangover I am referring to is not the hit movie, rather the glut of 2012-14 used equipment on the market, more specifically combines.
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