Posted by NY 986 on March 10, 2017 at 18:24:45 from (184.53.50.111):
In Reply to: Re: hard times posted by greenenvy on March 10, 2017 at 16:28:33:
I am thinking that close to 10 Deere dealers closed within an hour of us but do not know how many were due to hard times or Deere. I know that some of the Deere dealers were smallish in terms of buildings and maybe in a good year sold 6-10 farm tractors. Deere did find replacement dealers for a few locations and did not for a few others. Deere ran an ad in the area farm paper trying to recruit new dealers for a few locations in Western New York. IH lost over 10 in the same general area and that is without knowing what was going on at the outer limits of the one hour range I mentioned. Ford lost probably ten but did not have a merger or tough corporate management to blame. Poor product selection for dairy and grain crop country left their dealers withering and gave up before the merger with New Holland happened. AC rolled the dice on combine sales and discontinued a lot of dairy farm specific equipment which hurt dealers without significant side lines. The more fortunate ones picked up FNH to replace former Ford locations shortly after the Deutz-Allis merger.
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