Mazergroup buys out Yorkton, Raymore, Watrous NH dealerships

That's interesting. Somebody must have a master plan here because I'm not sure the farm equipment business is really the best thing to be investing in these days.

I'd take Mazergroup over any of the big Deere outfits or certainly RME. They have good people in town here and parts are more reasonable than the others although not what one would call cheap. Never good when something approaches monopoly status though, which is basically where we are at.

I can't speak for other dealerships, but if they run their new acquisitions like my local one they should be alright.
The local dealer is excellent in every department.

Bob Mazer helped me finance a lot of my equipment when other dealerships passed on me. I was just a young guy 23, and in a short time I had a complete line up of new Holland equipment. He s a good guy and took a chance on me back than and helped me get established in farming. It is sure handy to have a wide net work of dealerships to get product or service. However , I have sure seen Things change in 30 years.

Got a price on trading off our '13 CX8080 on a '16 CR8.9, less hours, can't remember exactly but not a lot. Let's just say they aren't "passing on the savings". Good chance for the first time in 30 years there might be a new brand of combine in our yard if we decide to trade.

We used to run the twin rotors before this CX. Had a TR 96, 97 CR 940, 970, then 2 different 9070's. Salesman said the 8080 would out do the CR it replaced, but no matter what we have tried it won't, just can't push it at all without putting it out the back. If you take your time it's ok, just not as good as the rotors. The CX is good on fuel and has been pretty trouble free, except the air filter issues that we got solved last year. Our main crops are barley and canola, and it sounds like everyone else agrees those two crops are it's weakness for some reason. In dry crops, if that happens, it will crack a fair bit.

Pretty sure there won't be a Deere in our yard, in fact 100% sure on that. Won't necessarily not be a New Holland, but will be shopping around a lot more than in the past. What they offered for ours was kind of an insult. Top dollar for the one they are selling. We could keep ours and buy one newer than ours and still be paying less, and have two machines.

I often wonder what the manufacturers think of these companies having monopolies? Likely prefer it, but in my mind it's kind of putting all your eggs in one basket. I remember a few years back a large Case dealership in the US was in bad financial shape, don't know what happened in the end. If one of these companies in Canada were to go broke, and we all know there is no such thing as too big to fail, that would be a huge loss for the manufacturer, with no one else able to take over.