Friday, August 22, 2008

The farm equipment industry is back!

And ASAE is moving to revive former industry relationships

Do you remember? The trouble began in 1980, soon after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and President Carter retaliated by canceling U.S. grain shipments to the USSR.

Until then, agriculture and those who depended on it had been prospering. Crop prices and farm income had been high, enabling farmers to increase the size of their operations. In the resulting competition for land, the price of land had escalated, with eac...

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