Dealer News

• Ohio Ag Equipment, a division of Ohio CAT and an authorized AGCO and CLAAS dealer for the state of Ohio, announced it will acquire AGCO dealer Jelloway Valley Equipment, effective Jan. 2, 2015. Ohio CAT said it plans to retain the Jelloway staff and the AGCO brands they represented.

• 21st Century Equipment LLC announced it will acquire Frank Implement Company’s John Deere dealerships and the leasing company Panhandle Acceptance Company, an agricultural financial enterprise, with the transaction to be complete in early 2015. As part of this transaction, Bryan Frank will acquire an ownership interest in 21st Century Equipment.

21st Century Equipment also has Colorado locations in Holyoke, Sterling, Burlington, Yuma, Wray, Akron, Cheyenne Wells, Flagler and Fort Morgan, as well as Nebraska stores in Alliance, Bridgeport, Gordon, Imperial, Ogallala, and Sidney. Frank Implement Co. is a third-generation John Deere dealership, established in 1957, with locations in Scottsbluff, NE, and Torrington, WY.

• Henry S. Miller, past president of Far West Equipment Dealers Association, recently passed away, just a week before his 93rd birthday. He was born in Berkeley, CA, and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1943. In 1948, he founded the Valley Truck and Tractor Company, which became one of the largest John Deere dealerships in the Western U.S. S