In this episode of Farm Equipment Soundbites, Claas Farmpoint Head of Commercial Development, Patricio Frangella talks about how Claas’ new remote service dealership model works and its original success in the European and South American markets.

In this episode Casey Seymour and Aaron Fintel of Moving Iron LLC discuss the slowdown in the ag equipment marketplace coming off a strong first half of 2023. They also talk about the auction market and how auctions are going to impact used equipment valuations come this fall.

In this episode Casey Seymour of Moving Iron LLC talks with CoBank’s Ken Zuckerberg. discuss investment in agtech and the impact interest rates have on the ag industry right now before getting into automation and innovation.

In this special episode of the Farm Equipment podcast, Editor/Publish Mike Lessiter visits with John Schmeister, COO of the North American Equipment Dealers Assn. Let’s jump in now as John shares a bit about his background growing up on the farm and in the family’s farm equipment dealership and how that influenced his career trajectory.

In this episode Casey Seymour of Moving Iron LLC talks with Jon Wommack, who is the managing guides editor with Iron Solutions by Randall-Reilly, about trends he is seeing in used equipment inventories and pricing. “There's a lot of combines that are going to come in, and we're going to end up with a lot of combines that have very low set powers on them. It means you're going to end up with quite a few expensive trades,” Wommack says.”

In this episode of Farm Equipment's Thought Leader Series, Associate Editor Ben Thorpe sits down with North American Equipment Dealers Assn. (NAEDA) Vice President of Government Affairs Eric Wareham.

In this episode Casey Seymour of Moving Iron LLC talk with Tanner Ehmke of CoBank. Casey and Tanner cover a number of economic issues in today’s podcast — from bank collapses to USDA’s 2023 outlook. They also touch on the grain corridor and the Black Sea, as well as what we see happening there with Russia and Ukraine and a few other things will pop up here along the way too.

In this episode of Farm Equipment's Thought Leader Series, Associate Editor Ben Thorpe sits down with Parallel Ag President and CEO Shawn Skaggs. Parallel Ag was formed in December 2022 through the merging of shortline Midwest applicator dealer Ag Solutions Group and AGCO Southern Plains dealer Livingston Machinery. President and CEO of the 12-store dealer Shawn Skaggs discusses how the merger came to be, what benefits it brings and how they will handle the 2 former dealerships’ product offerings and markets.

In this episode Casey Seymour of Moving Iron LLC talk with Shawn Hackett with Hackett Financial. They discuss the natural gas market, which recently saw an 80% drop from its highs. They then switch gears and soybeans and other commodities and what the world markets are looking at. Talking about soybeans, Hackett says, “I believe that the trend of soybeans outperforming other crops to gain those acres as we get into the planting season, that's going to continue until the market gets comfortable that it's remedied the error that they made and it gets, like I said, some of those acres over to soybeans. Because I don't think we can afford, Casey, to have a flat acreage here this year with all that's coming for '24 and '25.

In this episode of Farm Equipment's Thought Leader Series, brought to you by Laforge, Associate Editor Ben Thorpe sits down with John Deere dealer SN Partners’ CEO Ted Briscoe. SN Partners was Farm Equipment's 2021 Dealership of the Year. Everyone is looking for more technicians, and that’s nothing new. Almost 85% of dealers in the most recent Farm Equipment Dealer Business Outlook & Trends survey said they want to add technicians in 2023. Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners, a 27-store Missouri and Illinois John Deere dealer, decided if they couldn’t find the techs they need, they’d create them. The Thought Leader video series is brought to you by Laforge. Laforge branded front 3-point hitch systems have been available since 1979. Laforge Systems was established in 1991 as the first step in a carefully planned expansion to support Laforge’s growing number of dealers and customers throughout North America. The company quickly became a world leader in technology related to tractor-implement interaction, tractor ballasting and weight transfer. Learn more at https://www.laforgegroup.com/