“Pass it off to the customer” says Pattinson about rising business costs

[bucket]

Are generalizations like that particularly helpful?

That could very well apply to a lot of BTO farmers that I know.

Their fan base is usually pretty darn small around here.

It's just an opinion...

Disclaimer: I sometimes just say things to feel the crowd out...

Devils advocate and / or some of my opinions are fact.

[jamesb]

Its been easy to see the change at the corporate dealerships common today. There are lots of good guys at lots of stores but the general attitude is different that years ago when the owner of the store lived in the community. It is always interesting to see the volumes the stores are doing and who is buying. There seems to be a lot of the multi unit discount deals going on. If those guys can make things work then things will carry on. I figure it will be few years before we will see a X9 on our farm and a used one at that.

[RD414]

Western sales had 30 used x9’s. They had super deals when trading used newer jd combines. The best deals went to claas trades tho, they really went after them.