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Equipment Dealers Association and its Regional Affiliate Members Praise the House of Representatives for Bi-Partisan Approval of the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA)
ST. LOUIS, MO (December 20, 2019) – The Equipment Dealers Association (EDA) and its regional affiliate members praise the House of Representatives for passing the USMCA. The legislation ratifying the agreement passed on December 19, 2019, by a sweeping margin with 385...
Gov. Reynolds Kicks-Off National Apprenticeship Week at Site of New Program in Nevada
NEVADA – Today, Gov. Kim Reynolds visited Van Wall Equipment in Nevada to highlight their new Farm Equipment Mechanic Registered Apprenticeship program and celebrate Registered Apprenticeship Appreciation and Awareness Week. Gov. Reynolds also signed a proclamation,...
EDA Announces New Board Chairman
ST. LOUIS, MO (October 24, 2019) – The Equipment Dealers Association (EDA) is proud to announce the election of their new Chairman of the Board, Ivan Dorhout. Ivan has served on the Board of Directors since 2015 and was elected Vice Chairman in 2018. Ivan is...
Secretary Perdue Statement on Administrative Actions to Streamline H-2A Process
(Washington, D.C., September 20, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement highlighting actions announced by the Department of Labor (DOL) which will modernize the burdensome H2A visa process. First, DOL published a common-sense...
Equipment Dealers Win with New IRS Development
LOUIS, MO (September 17, 2019) – The Equipment Dealers Association praises the IRS’ final and proposed regulations that clarify bonus depreciation and interest expense for dealerships with floor plan financing. “To the extent that overall interest expense, including...
Report: Potential Economic Impact of Irrigation Tunnel Collapse is $89M
The collapse of an irrigation tunnel in southeastern Wyoming could cost Nebraska and Wyoming roughly 89 million dollars in economic losses if affected crops are a total loss, according to a report by university specialists in the two states. [More]
Volume of Prevented Plant Acres Could Hit Ag Equipment Sales
There’s little doubt that the volume of prevented plant acres will impact the sale of farm machinery for the remainder of 2019 and possibly into 2020. The effects of the poor planting weather that resulted in very late planting or prevented planting of corn and...
Secretary Perdue Announces Kansas City Region as Location for ERS and NIFA
Move puts ERS, NIFA closer to customers, expected to save nearly $300 million nominally (Washington, D.C., June 13, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will relocate the Economic Research Service...
Deere to boost credit to African farmers
Deere (NYSE:DE) is looking to extend more credit to African farmers who have traditionally made purchases in cash amid a "dramatic shift" in mechanization as the continent seeks to boost food production. The company lends as much as $70M to individual African farmers,...
2017 Census of Agriculture
The Census of Agriculture is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. Even small plots of land - whether rural or urban - growing fruit, vegetables or some food animals count if $1,000 or more of such products were raised and sold,...