John Deere reducing dealerships

e3120

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
To be fair if one of my good customers tried to call me out on Christmas Day/boxing day/new year I’d tell them politely where to go!
Independents and dealer staff have family and young kids you know.
If you can’t manage on a stock farm for a couple of days with a machine stopped you need to take a good look at your backup system.
Of course, Phil, one of the beauties of being an independent is that you can write your own policy. But it does seem odd that just because my £100k of in-warranty equipment is used in a period rich with annual/bank holidays, I have to over-capacitise for eventualities, but if similar-valued kit was used in the summer I could expect a different service.

To be fair, I'm fairly confident our dealers would keep us going. Just as well, as serious livestock users are unlikely to find a friend/contractor with the right kit (or if so with spare capacity). No problem blagging a TH and bucket from a shooting neighbour.

Simply down to land get worse
Have roads got steeper as well then? Lots of us do other jobs and find new horses to be a poor imitation. Sorry, but it can be wearing when the 'cultivation is evil' card is unnecessarily played.
 

Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
Of course, Phil, one of the beauties of being an independent is that you can write your own policy. But it does seem odd that just because my £100k of in-warranty equipment is used in a period rich with annual/bank holidays, I have to over-capacitise for eventualities, but if similar-valued kit was used in the summer I could expect a different service.

To be fair, I'm fairly confident our dealers would keep us going. Just as well, as serious livestock users are unlikely to find a friend/contractor with the right kit (or if so with spare capacity). No problem blagging a TH and bucket from a shooting neighbour.


Have roads got steeper as well then? Lots of us do other jobs and find new horses to be a poor imitation. Sorry, but it can be wearing when the 'cultivation is evil' card is unnecessarily played.
Completely agree. Soils have not deteriorated that much in 15 years. Certainly not on my farm.
 

juke

Member
Location
DURHAM
Completely agree. Soils have not deteriorated that much in 15 years. Certainly not on my farm.

Suffered no errorison in the last 20 years due to cultivation ?

Have roads got steeper as well then? Lots of us do other jobs and find new horses to be a poor imitation. Sorry, but it can be wearing when the 'cultivation is evil' card is unnecessarily played.

You dont rip a road up annually ,
 

Martin Holden

Member
Trade
Location
Cheltenham
I’m sure there will be more important dealer announcements in the new year now that all the Christmas party’s are finished.
You can be sure of that. The trade is re organising as the industry at farm level is doing the same thing. It’s a natural progression whatever your views on it. Look what’s happened in the car world; VAG and Merc now own all their retail outlets I believe.
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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