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 Dealership Minds Summit.
Most ag prognosticators agree that it would take a significant disruption to crop supplies to impact the prices of the major crops (corn, soybeans, wheat). With nearly all of the 2017 harvest in the bin, it’s readily apparent that this did not happen.
According to Eric Anfinson, associate equity analyst for Morningstar, demand for agricultural equipment and machinery has softened due to weakened crop prices.
In today's newscast we look at some news surround crop prices, Canadian dealers outlook for the planting and harvesting seasons, meeting precision margins and Art's Way's second quarter financial results.
Half of the slightly more than 300 North American farm equipment dealers responding to Farm Equipment’s “2015 Dealer Business Outlook & Trends” survey expect sales revenues to decline in the year ahead compared with the year passed.
Last week, while visiting a large farming operation in Michigan, I had the opportunity to ask the brothers who own and operate the 14,000-acre enterprise, if given the choice, what would they prefer, high crop prices or high crop yields?
While market prices of corn and soybeans are lower at present than they have been in the past few years, they still produce the best return on a per acre basis than almost any of the other commodity crops, though rice and peanuts have been looking pretty good for the past year or two.
Last week's National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville was a good one, if for no other reason than the fact that it was hard to find anyone who was too worried about the coming year in agriculture.
Corn futures, which topped $8 bushel for the first time, could yet spike above $10 a bushel, Morgan Stanley said, lifted by a "battle royal" between livestock producers for supplies.
Fertilizer prices paid by farmers outpaced the increase in crop prices received by farmers from 2004 to 2008, driven largely by high energy prices and input material costs.
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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