Dealer News Update

Brandt Tractor announced the acquisition of Wallace Equipment. This newest addition marks a historical event for Brandt establishing the company as nationwide in Canada. Brandt now has 27 branches to serve its customers.

For 20 years, Wallace Equipment has been the John Deere Construction and Forestry Dealer for the Atlantic side in Canada. Wallace has also been operating five locations including Fredericton, Moncton, Bathurst, Halifax, and Sydney.

Effective this month, the Wallace Equipment Ltd. name will change to Brandt Tractor Ltd.

Central Illinois Ag (CIA) confirms their business operations remain open following a fire at their Atlanta location on June 30, 2013. According to business co-owner Steve Schmidt, the sales and accounting offices are gone as well as the parts showroom area.

Officials say that about 15 fire departments helped to put out the fire. General Manager of CIA, Atlanta, Warren Goetsch said, “It’s kind of devastating. You know, we all thought this was our home and it hurt us a little bit. But we’ll be all right.”

Fortunately, there were no injuries and the computer files were backed up. Steve Schmidt said the dealership retained most of the computer information since they are stored on a cloud server. Due to this precaution, their business was able to be up and running within a couple of days after the fire.

Swoboda Implement, Inc. in Bloomer, WI, privately owned by Ron and Judy Swoboda, has been sold to Value Implement, Inc. as of July 1, 2013. For over 41 years, the Swobodas have run a family owned and operated sales and services business in farm, commercial and consumer equipment.

Included in their offerings was a complete line of farm equipment including bobcat, CASE III, Cub Cadet, and Gehl to name a few.

Value Implement maintains five locations including Arcadia, Baldwin, Ellsworth, Menomonie, and Osseo. Their offerings include rentals, service and repair, and sales.

Hoober Inc., a farm equipment dealer with locations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, has reached an agreement to acquire certain assets of H.B. Duvall Inc. located in Frederick, MD. Completion of the acquisition is scheduled for August 26, 2013. Products include farm equipment such as tractors, harvesters, planting, tillage, hay and forage, chemical applicators, and more.