The best years locally were probably 1940-1955 with WWII and the Marshall Plan being stimulators of the farm economy in general. I don't think that volume-wise a lot of iron was sold during the 1960's and the grain boom of the 1970's helped extend the lives of some dealerships. The grain embargo and stagnant milk prices during the early 1980's closed a lot of dealers. Again, it was a big help if a dealer was located in vegetable crop country where farmers were still buying tractors during the dark days of 1983-1986.
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