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Dealer Sentiments and Business Conditions Update

The results of this most recent report are based on the responses of 122 North American farm equipment dealers representing a combined annual revenues of roughly $4.7 billion. Highlights from the November Dealer Sentiment report include:

Ag equipment dealers report year-over-year sales grew 4 percent, inline with the September results.
Shortline dealers once again saw the highest growth at 12 percent, while AGCO dealers had the weakest sales at down 1 percent.
A net 8 percent of dealers categorize their new inventory as "too high" (24 percent too high; 59 percent about right; 16 percent too low) vs. 14 percent last month. This is the third straight month new equipment inventories among dealers are too high following a period of 12 straight months of new inventory being "comfortable" or "too low."
Incoming orders grew 1 percent on average in October, similar to last month.

Ag Equipment Intelligence and the Cleveland Research Co. conduct this monthly survey of North American dealers to provide a "snapshot" of their current sentiments and to keep industry professionals up to date on significant trends in the farm machinery industry. This survey was conducted during the last two weeks of November and reflects dealer sentiment at that time.

If you have any comments on how we can make this report more useful, please drop me a note at kschmidt@lesspub.com and let me know what you're thinking.

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Seed Hawk Receives Carbon Footprint Certification

When Seed Hawk began, one of its foundational principles was environmental sustainability. As we have grown and developed, we have stayed true to that foundation, advocating for conservational agricultural practices everywhere we do business.

We are pleased to share Seed Hawk’s most recent efforts as environmentally responsible global citizens. Seed Hawk has become the first agricultural equipment manufacturer to obtain carbon footprint certification from the internationally respected Carbon Trust, a UK-based environmental standards organization.

Seed Hawk worked with a third-party organization, the Saskatchewan Research Council, to conduct Life Cycle Analysis on the Seed Hawk 45 Series, XL Series and 30 Series. It is the first step in attaining an accurate picture of the environmental impact our machinery can have over its lifetime. Carbon certification is quickly becoming a significant factor in agricultural decisions in several markets around the world.

You can read more about our carbon certification in the news released attached.

Thank you for sharing our vision of sustainable agriculture.

Peter Clarke
President and CEO, Seed Hawk Inc.

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