John Bob is a Saskatchewan-based dealer of New Holland agriculture equipment with locations in Outlook and Tisdale. A number of complimentary short line agriculture equipment brands including MacDon and Bourgault are also sold through John Bob’s locations.

Joining the Taber and Crossfield locations, High River will continue to place a strong emphasis on in-field service, and service trucks will be in operation from the outset. With the addition of High River, Alberta AG Centre is now able to reach and service customers in Calgary all the way to the U.S. border.

Effective Nov. 1, 2017, Agriterra Equipment has purchased the assets of Dennills Agricenter (Vegreville and Dewberry) in central Alberta. With this acquisition Agriterra has contiguous coverage from Edmonton to the Saskatchewan border.

Canada’s two largest farm equipment dealers, Rocky Mountain Dealerships and Cervus Equipment reported their third quarter earnings this month and both posted strong sales for the 3 month period and for the first 9 months of 2017.

In this podscast, we have an update on the North Dakota Dealer Protection law and when we can expect a ruling from the judge, we take a look at the results from Purdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture’s latest Ag Economy Barometer and what producers are saying about used equipment values, Deere dealers are looking to hire more precision farming techs, and the third quarter earnings reports from Rocky Mountain Dealerships, Cervus Equipment, CNH Industrial, AGCO and Alamo Group.

Cervus Equipment broke ground on a new 28,000 square foot facility in Hanna, Alta. The new facility will be the most energy efficient building the dealership group operates.

Last week, both publicly traded Canadian farm equipment dealership groups issued their second quarter 2017 earnings reports. Both Cervus Equipment and Rocky Mountain dealerships posted solid revenue gains for the 3 month period ended June 30, 2017.

Canada West Harvest Centre has announced plans to open a new dealership in Yorkton, SK. Their latest edition, which will open during the 2017 harvest season

While farm equipment sales trends by region were mixed in May, overall dealers report seeing some improvement in the first quarter of 2017.