This standing feature in the Ag Equipment Intelligence newsletter catalogues notable dealership merger & acquisition activity since the previous newsletter.
In its third quarter 2023 earnings released Aug. 18, John Deere reported its dealers’ 4WD inventories, as a percent of trailing 12 month sales, had reached a 5-year low.
Germany-based Jost Werke SE has signed a purchase agreement to acquire LH Lift Oy, based in Finland, that manufactures 3-point linkages and hitches
trucking company Yellow Corp. collapsed into bankruptcy on Aug. 6
In its Sept. 12 WASDE report, USDA estimated 2023-24 corn ending stocks at 2,221 billion bushels, soybeans at 220 million bushels and wheat at 615 million bushels
VDMA reported German tractor registrations down 4% year-over-year in August (up 3% year-to-date)
Kubota plans to commercialize unmanned tractors, rice planters and combine harvesters in Japan as early as 2026, according to an Aug. 26 report from Nikkei Asia
Lemken CEO Anthony van der Ley forecast a 6-7% decline in global ag equipment sales for 2024 in a Sept. 10 report from Agriland
According to CEMA, the general business climate index for the European ag equipment industry has continued to fall
Titan Machinery reported its second quarter earnings for its fiscal year 2024 on Aug. 31, including $678 million in ag equipment sales for the first half of its fiscal year.
Bucher Industries, which owns Kuhn Group, released its second quarter 2023 earnings report July 27 and reported Kuhn Group’s net sales for the first half of the year totaled $971.4, up 6.6% year over year.
In its 2Q23 earnings report released July 27, AGCO reported $704.1 million in sales of combines, application equipment and other machinery for the first half of 2023, a 65.7% year-over-year increase
In its annual summary of farm production expenditures, the USDA reported last month that total estimated expenditures in the continental U.S. for 2022 rose to $453.7 billion.
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