Hick - 5/5/2026 11:19 Cutting crop insurance would do the dealers a lot of good. For every 20,000 acre farmer that went tits up, 20 1000 acre farmers could thrive. They could service 10 times the combines. Exactly. The highest volume year for combine sales in the USA was 1979 when approximately 30,000 combines were sold compared to just a few thousand per year in recent years. Sure, they were smaller machines but also 10 dealers had a chance to make a sale. Same with planters. 3 or 4 dealers had a chance to sell a 6 or 8 row planter compared to one dealer selling a 24 row planter. | 
Worst farm economy since the 80s
