During a Feb. 28 Farm Equipment webinar in conjunction with Franchise Equity Partners, George Russell, a founding member of the Machinery Advisors Consortium (MAC), shared some options dealers have when it comes to private equity investment and how those options tie into what he calls the “second machine age dealer.”

When farmers were asked in an exclusive Lessiter Media email survey what they thought of the current right-to-repair issues, they didn’t hold back in voicing their opinions, feelings, thought and ideas.

Question: How are rising interest rates impacting your business as a dealer and what changes do you need to take as a result? 

Four years ago, we got hit with a ransomware attack. Russian software administered by North Korean state sponsored terrorists shut down our entire system right as corn harvest was happening.