Scam Alert
Be aware! We received word from a dealer that a persistent man with a strong accent is calling dealers to purchase parts and have them shipped to the UK. The parts he requested are CAT Injectors: 253-0618 / 10R-2772 and 236-0962 / 10R-7224. While the credit card number he gave did appear to work when run by the dealership, this was a scam. Please make sure your employees remain on alert and know the proper steps to follow when taking an order over the phone. Always get the full name, address and telephone number from the caller. Ask them to provide the card verification code and customer service number printed on the back of the card. Inform the caller that you will verify the information with the bank. In addition, ask them to email a scanned photo ID to the dealership.
INEDA Member Butler Ag Honored – Fremont Tribune
The AGCO dealership was named Dealership of the Year by the Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce. [More]
Dover Appoints Tobin President/CEO – Farm Equipment
Two days after resigning his position as CEO and director of CNH Industrial, Richard Tobin has been named president and CEO of Dover Corp. [More]
Case IH Announces Jim Walker Retiring – Farm Equipment
A memo to North American Case IH dealers and Case IH employees announced that Vice President Jim Walker has elected to retire from the company after 11 years. Scott Harris, current Vice President of Case Construction, will transition to Case IH and lead the brand as Vice President in North America. [More]
Husker Research to Advance Tractor Testing Techniques – Farm Equipment
New research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is bringing tractor testing into the modern era. [More]
Iowa Dept. of Ag Encourages Filtration of Diesel Fuel for Farm & Off-Road Equipment – Iowa Dept. of Ag
The Iowa Dept. of Ag & Land Stewardship has been working with pipeline terminal operators, fuel retailers and petroleum marketers following reports of dispenser fuel filters plugging at several diesel fuel retailers in central and northeast Iowa. Some of the diesel fuel in the system has been clogging the 30 micron fuel filters that are required by Iowa law to be on retail diesel fuel pumps. [More]
Farmers’ Debt Service Ratio Leveled Off in 2017, Remains Stable into 2018 – Farm Equipment
Despite U.S. farmers taking on more debt in recent years, their ability to pay it down remains steady and nowhere near the situation they found themselves in during the mid-1980s. [More]
Elvis Presley’s John Deere 4010 – Successful Farming
Only the instructor knew the truth about the tractor in the shop at Mississippi Southwest Community College in 2009. If he’d told the four students tackling the refurbishing job on the 1963 John Deere 4010, they wouldn’t have believed him anyway. [More]
