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Sales surge boosts AGCO
Deere sales up 18%
Gary King named Chairman of OPE
NFU wins Trade Association of the Year
A F Wiltshire switches to Landini
950 exhibitors expected at GaLaBau 2008

Sales surge boosts AGCO
Agco Corp has announced that its earnings more than doubled in its most recent quarter, as surging commodity prices gave farmers worldwide the cash to invest in new tractors and combines. The company has also raised its full-year profit forecast, which sent its shares up as much as 18.5 percent.

Deere sales up 18%
DEERE has announced worldwide net income of $763.5 million, or $1.74 per share, for the second quarter ended April 30, compared with $623.6 million, or $1.36 per share, for the same period last year. Worldwide net sales and revenues increased 18% to $8.097 billion for the second quarter and were also up 18% to $13.298 billion for the first six months.

Gary King named Chairman of OPE
Gary King of Bosch Lawn and Garden has been nominated Chairman of the OPE Council of the Agricultural Engineers Association and chaired his first meeting at the end of July. OPEC is the Outdoor Power Equipment Council of the AEA and comprises representatives from the major Companies in the sector.

NFU wins Trade Association of the Year
The NFU has triumphed at the prestigious CBI Trade Association Best Practice Awards. At a ceremony held at London’s Park Lane InterContinental hotel recently, the organisation was named Trade Association of the Year 2008 as well as picking up awards for best Environment Initiative and Magazine of the Year for British Farmer and Grower.

A F Wiltshire switches to Landini
With two tractors retailed within weeks of signing up to a new franchise, the sales, service and management team at Surrey farm machinery dealership A F Wiltshire LLP feel they are on to a good thing. The business, which was formed by Albert Wiltshire 38 years ago and is now run jointly with his daughter Laura Brown, represents Landini in Hampshire and Surrey alongside existing dealer P J Machinery at Ashurst near Steyning, West Sussex.

950 exhibitors expected at GaLaBau 2008
John Deere’s new XUV 850D 4x4 Gator utility vehicle won the transport category in this year's Farmers Guardian New Equipment Awards 2008, which were judged at the Royal Show on the first day, 3rd July. The judging team were the RASE's honorary consulting engineer Matthew Home, Farmers Guardian's machinery editor Mervyn Bailey and farmer Robert Lockhart