Keeping a business properly staffed as time goes by is a challenge for any family run business as John Miller, chief executive officer of Valley Truck and Tractor discusses. As generation's change, Miller remarks how the management will shift from family run to including outside hires.
Seeder and tillage equipment manufacturer Väderstad has reached an agreement to distribute its products in Russia and Ukraine through John Deere dealerships.
A policy of enabling John Deere dealers to fill out their product lines with equipment from subsidiaries and alliance partners is continuing to be pursued by Deere with the acquisition of an Italian manufacturer of self-propelled sprayers and a newly formed alliance with the German manufacturer of agricultural material handling equipment.
Source: Deere & Co. Annual 10-K filed in December for FY ending October 2016
There’s little doubt that there fewer farm equipment dealers than there were a decade ago, but, in the case of John Deere dealer locations, the change isn’t as significant as you might think. The biggest reduction in Deere dealers has come in the retail locations handling the company’s turf equipment.
In today’s newscast, we look into how Deere & Co.’s recent acquisition in the construction market will help make the manufacturer less reliant on agriculture, tactics for branding a dealership’s precision business, whether or not the wet spring means much for the water wars in California and how producers, dealers and manufacturers are reacting to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
With 7 locations in Missouri and Illinois, the Wm. Nobbe & Co. family is increasing by 5 with the addition of McLean Implement that has locations in Wayne City, Norris City, Flora, Benton and Albion, Ill.
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The announcement of a partnership between New Holland and Bluewhite was one of the big precision stories of the summer. West Coast New Holland dealers now have the rights to sell, distribute and service Bluewhite’s aftermarket autonomy kits.