last small john deere dealer in il ?

730virgil · Jul 25, 2015

a few days a guy i am acquainted with told me the last small john deere (only 1 dealership) had sold the business to a dealer that owns 25 or 30
other jd dealership in il and southren wi.
i know lots of case ih dealers own more than 1 dealership.
is this also the case with agco dealers?
i can think of only 4 agco dealers within 50 of me.

Tim(nj) · Jul 25, 2015

They've all gone that route. We have Smith Tractor in Washington, NJ, the oldest continuously operated Ford/Ford-New Holland/New Holland dealer in the country (according to their radio ad, anyway)as a single-location operation, but everything else up here in the northwest part of the state is gone. Over in eastern Pennsylvania there has been a lot of consolidation of dealerships in the last 10 years. Ag-Industrial has absorbed several smaller New Holland dealers, and Binkley & Hurst has absorbed several AGCO dealerships of various ancestry, while Deer Country and Atlantic Tractor have been consolidating the small JD dealerships. Some dealers have just simply gone out of business.

bradley martin · Jul 25, 2015

I recently read an article on DTN that predicted further consolidation with likely half of all farm equipment dealerships in North America disappearing within 5 years!!

rrlund · Jul 25, 2015

Five Agco dealers here,four are single location dealers,one has grown from nothing to three locations now. Their new dealership is the closest dealer of any brand to me. The one that I've been going to for years is loosing their Agco contract though from what I've been told on here by another member. The owner had been an Oliver dealer way back. He died a year ago last December. His son is service manager and daughter in law runs parts. I guess Agco told them two days after the funeral to start winding things down,they weren't getting a new contract apparently,but they're still going,so I don't know what's going on with them. Most of their business is through the shop and parts. I don't know if they're going to stay open with Gehl,Kuhn,Great Plains,Kilbros,Landpride and whatever other shortlines they handle or what the deal is.

The last Deere dealer in Michigan with just two locations was forced out February first,so I think there's just five different names on every Deeremart in the state,as far as I know.

oldtanker · Jul 25, 2015

WE had an AGCO dealer near here that was a single operation. When the owners retired they sold out to another AGCO dealer with delusions of grandeur. They took over a dealership that was selling equipment, parts and service and in 2 years had to close the place down. Went from a place where you could gets the parts you needed often in stock and good service. It went to no parts on hand for any older equipment and poor service. New dealer operates on the principal that if you have to get crops in the ground or harvested and it's going to take time to get parts you will buy something new. Sure didn't take em long to run it into the ground. Other than that everything here it seems is RDO owned JD dealers and Titan owned CaseIH/NH.

Rick

crooked rows · Jul 25, 2015

Randy, Godfrey Brothers is still a one store John Deere dealer here in Michigan isn't it.

rrlund · Jul 25, 2015

Are they still open or have they been forced in to GreenMark? I know they were the last single dealer.
There's GreenMark,Bader and Sons,Bader Brothers (if they're still open),D&G and Tri County.
In the 70's I could have left home and gone to four of them,then back home again and travelled fewer miles than I have to travel to the nearest one now.

JD Seller · Jul 25, 2015

That would be Malone's in Fulton, IL. He sold to Sloan's. HE is 59/60 years old. JD is PUSH hard for this to happen. All of us DUMB farmers are just letting it happen too. When there is only one chain owning all of the stores within a 100 mile distance there is ZERO competition.

vscummins · Jul 25, 2015

one dealer here that has fewer then 20 stores . they have 3 stores and they were mADE to update there stores and combine the 3 separate dealers they were independent owned buy brothers they are the best dealer in this part of the country and have as many parts or more on the shelves than the big dealers and they are the lowest price

Paul from MI · Jul 25, 2015

Don't know how they manage to escape corporate mandates, but they still have most anything I need on the shelf. Sure hope they can hang on.

rrlund · Jul 25, 2015

I've got a bad feeling that when they go,it'll be as fast as it was with Voelker. They had changed hands before they could even take their website down.

Spudm · Jul 25, 2015

Go to any John Deere dealership that's part of the chain, and the first or second question out of a salesperson mouth is "Where you from?" People I know are buying Kubota....and liking it!

flying belgian · Jul 25, 2015

How are we letting it happen? What should we be doing?

JD Seller · Jul 26, 2015

Well first off we should be complaining to the actual company that is pushing this. We are the customers that BUY their products.

Second there are price fixing laws in place for other business that should apply to the farm equipment world. I know there are rules on auto dealerships that they can not share some information between all their different stores on price quotes/purchase offers.

Third there is getting to be companies that may have a monopoly on some segments of the farm equipment market.

I am just saying that we all talk about how we do not like what is happening but I see very little activity trying to counter the trend. I do include myself in this failure to act list.

centralilbaler · Jul 26, 2015

The agco dealer i buy parts from only has 2 stores

Spudm · Jul 26, 2015

A week ago I went to a county fair, (not the county I live in) and was looking at tractors. John Deere had 2 tractors on display, and a salesperson that asked me where I live, and then referred me back to the dealership in my county and politely walked away. Really?

01gentdc · Jul 26, 2015

yes I would lik,e to know too ,, that's like being blamed for all the absentee and voter fraud in the slum cities that elect the clown jokers in Washington dc

DouginIL · Jul 26, 2015

(quoted from post at 22:24:03 07/25/15) a few days a guy i am acquainted with told me the last small john deere (only 1 dealership) had sold the business to a dealer that owns 25 or 30
other jd dealership in il and southren wi.
i know lots of case ih dealers own more than 1 dealership.
is this also the case with agco dealers?
i can think of only 4 agco dealers within 50 of me.

I can think of at least two single store John Deere dealers still in Illinois. Avon and Belleville. I'm sure there are probably more.

dwag · Jul 26, 2015

Word is Deere has been wanting rid of Malone's dealership (Neff Co.) for years. Owner is mid/upper 80's in age?, very successful and wealthy. Assume his contract is pretty straight forward and 50/60 yrs old. Excellent place to do business.

K Effective · Jul 26, 2015

I went to college with Tim Godfrey way back when Western Michigan still had an Ag department, so he must be 48-50 years old as well. Figure his Dad/Uncle must be 70+ years old, not sure how the business is structured today, but as a single location dealership, I'm sure the pressure is on. I just checked the website, seems Tim is not listed, but a brother/cousin Kevin still owns the single store.

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