ADR Group鈥攖hrough its U.S. subsidiary, ADR Axles USA Inc., and a member of the 果冻视频 (FEMA)鈥攊s strengthening its presence on American soil with the development of a new facility in Perry, IA.

The U.S. journey started well before the land acquisition in April 2025, indeed, ADR has been active in the American market for many years, building strong relationships with customers and partners.

The new facility

The opening in Iowa marks a decisive step toward being even closer to the American market, with solutions and services designed around the real needs of our customers.

The new branch will be ADR’s production and distribution center dedicated to the U.S. market and will act as a strategic link with ADR鈥檚 headquarters, ensuring that North America continues to receive the quality, innovation, and reliability that have always distinguished ADR products worldwide.

The new facility will cover an area of 68,000 square feet and and will be operational starting in the first quarter of 2027.

The Groundbreaking Ceremony

Last October 23^rd we celebrated the Groundbreaking of the new facility, officially marking the beginning of construction. The event took place in the Perry Industrial Park, where the facility will be built, and involved ADR directors and authorities from the city, Dallas County, and the state of Iowa.

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Basak Tractors, a division of ASKO Holdings, will pay a total of $60.5 million for 97 per cent of the shares of Buhler Industries that had been held by Combine Factory Rostselmash Ltd., a Russian company that acquired controlling interest in Buhler in 2007.

The deal, which includes covering debts that Buhler owes Rostselmash is to close by the end of the year or early 2024.

Officials from Buhler Industries as well as industry observers believe it鈥檚 a deal that will benefit the on-going future of the enterprise that has been fairly hard hit by the disruptions from post-pandemic supply chain issues.

Buhler employs more than 800 people in plants in Winnipeg, where it makes the Versatile-brand tractors and tillage equipment and in Morden where it makes the Farm King brand grain and hay handling equipment and compacting equipment.

Basak makes tractors up to 120 horse power (compared to Versatile鈥檚 much larger 170-to-620  horsepower machines). About 80 per cent of its sales are in Turkey, but it also exports as far afield as Africa, South America and Japan.

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The acquisition of Northeast Spring closed on September 15, 2023, and expands Iowa Spring’s growing presence as the premier supplier of precision-made springs for the overhead door, construction, agriculture, and recreational equipment industries across the globe.   

“Our team has worked tirelessly for more than two decades to build a highly respected company that is focused on family values, quality and integrity,” said founder John O’Leary. “With so many spring companies being acquired by large private equity groups, it was essential to me to find a like-minded buyer that could be trusted to keep our team intact and who could uphold our company’s legacy and reputation. Iowa Spring is a perfect match, and I am confident in knowing that Northeast Spring will be in good, capable hands moving forward.”

Following the acquisition, Iowa Spring President & CEO Tim Bianco will oversee operations of Northeast Spring in addition to its three existing facilities: the original Iowa Spring facility, its recent 55,000 square foot nearby expansion facility, and its sister company Southern Atlantic Spring of Granite Quarry, North Carolina.

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Tractor Supply said Tuesday it will pay $320 million for the 166 stores, the largest acquisition in the company鈥檚 history. It will only keep 81 stores as part of an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, which includes the sale of 12 locations to Buchheits, a small home-improvement and farm and ranch retailer, and 73 locations to Bomgaars, another small retailer in the category, said Hal Lawton, chief executive of Tractor Supply, in an interview. 

Tractor Supply will receive $72 million for the sale of those stores, he said.

The Federal Trade Commission鈥檚 approval comes on the final day the regulatory body could block the purchase under an antitrust review, according to a Tractor Supply spokeswoman. Tractor Supply plans to close the deal Wednesday.

The FTC said Tuesday it approved the deal, including the divestitures, as well as a monitor to oversee compliance with the purchase agreement, among other measures.

Tractor Supply announced the purchase early last year. The company was interested in the deal, in part, because Orscheln鈥檚 mostly Midwestern store base complements Tractor Supply鈥檚 roughly 2,000 store locations, Mr. Lawton said. 鈥淢any of these markets really are a one-store kind of market, and they got there first so we never built,鈥� he said. 

Tractor Supply had expected to be required to sell a large number of stores to get the deal approved, Mr. Lawton said. But 鈥渨e did not anticipate it taking this long,鈥� he said. 

In May, seven Republican attorneys general signed a letter that asked the FTC to approve the deal and described concern about the process, saying it took too long and didn鈥檛 take into account all the retailers Tractor Supply and Orscheln compete with in rural areas such as big-box stores or feed and grain co-ops. 

Tractor Supply鈥檚  throughout the Covid-19 pandemic as people spent more time outside major metropolitan areas fixing up their  or tending to animals. 

The company plans to spend between $750,000 and $1 million to rebrand and renovate the Orscheln stores over the next 12 to 15 months, said Mr. Lawton. Orscheln stores鈥� sales per square foot and operating profit are lower than the average Tractor Supply store, leaving room for growth, he said.

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Force Unlimited founder Stan Duncalf said Unverferth will provide 鈥渢he added manufacturing capabilities for continued sales growth and maintaining high-quality manufacturing and after-market support for the products I have nurtured for the last 17 years.鈥�

As part of the acquisition, Duncalf will join Unverferth in a research-and-development role.

Larry Unverferth, president of the company, said he looks forward to 鈥渃ontinuing the success of Stan鈥檚 innovative鈥� products and 鈥渆xpanding his vision.鈥�

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Lessiter Media publishes Farm Equipment as well as other print and digital products and events.

Cover Crop Innovators will be part of Lessiter Media鈥檚 Cover Crop Strategies division, a digital property launched in 2019.

The use of cover crops continues to be a fast-growing trend in agriculture. A total of 15.3 million acres were seeded with cover crops in 2017, an increase of 49 percent since 2012.

Groff, of Holtwood, Pa., is an award-winning, no-till farmer and a long-time contributor to Lessiter Media properties, including No-Till Farmer, the National No-Tillage Conference and Cover Crop Strategies.

He will remain in a transitional consultative role as he expands his newly created 鈥淗emp Innovators鈥� services, an area of wide interest in which he has developed an early expertise.

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鈥淭he addition of Schuler鈥檚 feeding equipment strengthens our long-term vision to continually introduce new product innovation for cattle producers across the entire hay and feeding value stream,鈥� said Mark Core, executive vice president of Vermeer Forage Solutions.

Schuler Manufacturing President Reggie Schuler said this: 鈥淎s we become part of the Vermeer family, we are excited that our team in Griswold will be closely connected to a host of additional resources including manufacturing, engineering, sales and additional distribution so we can reach more producers with our proven solutions.鈥�

The current line-up of Schuler-made TMR mixers and feed wagons will continue to be produced in Griswold and sold through existing Schuler and now select Vermeer distribution partners.

Products will initially be sold under the Schuler brand and transition to Vermeer as the two companies integrate.

Louis Norton, who has been with Vermeer for 30 years, will serve as general manager of the Schuler Manufacturing operation and facilities in Griswold and will guide the integration. Several Schuler family members will continue to play important roles in sales, manufacturing and support areas of the business.

Schuler has been a member company since 1969.

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Dinamica is headquartered in Italy.

鈥淥ur planned acquisition of Zeltex recognizes the growing importance of the U.S. market for NIR technology in precision farming applications,鈥� said Dinamica Generale CEO Andrea Ghiraldi.

Dinamic said it is committed to fully supporting Zeltex customers and partners.

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On Oct. 30, the company announced the acquisition of a majority interest in Dot Technologies, a member company based in Canada that has developed the Dot Power Platform and Dot Ready Implements.

Two days later, Raven announced it acquired Smart Ag, an autonomous systems developer based in Ames, Iowa.

How the acquisitions and further commercialization of autonomous systems will evolve Raven鈥檚 dealer network remains to be seen.

Rob Saik, CEO of Dot Technology, notes that the flexibility of its platform could create some new opportunities with dealers and manufacturers.

鈥淔or shortline implement manufacturers, Dot is an open, U-shaped platform. So we鈥檙e open to talk to shortliners and OEMs about how to integrate their equipment into the Dot platform. So there鈥檚 lots of reasons why people need to take a look at the Dot (system), and we鈥檙e just happy to be able to supply a path to autonomy for the agricultural sector.鈥�

Forty-two percent of dealers who responded to the 2019 Precision Farming Dealer Benchmark study cited autonomous equipment as being an important part of growing revenue during the next five years.

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The products are marketed under the Morbark, Rayco, Denis Cimaf and Boxer Equipment brand names.

Ron Robinson, Alamo Group鈥檚 president and CEO said this: 鈥淢orbark is a well-run, profitable, and growing company in a sector that has been steadily improving. Their products expand and complement our range of vegetation maintenance equipment in an adjacent market. We are excited about the opportunities this acquisition will provide Alamo and we look to continue their existing strategic growth plan focused on product development and market expansion, supplemented with synergistic acquisitions.鈥�
Source: Alamo Group | Member since 1952 |