ON A SHORT LEASE: Dealerships favor leasing equipment to reap tax rewards while keeping cash reserves intact

摘要

AS agronomists hammer out the details of site-specific ag - What's the correct grid size? Who owns the data? - dealership managers are transfixed on a more basic issue: cost. It's the number-one hurdle to dealership adoption of site-specific services, according to the second annual FARM CHEMICALS/Purdue University Dealership Adoption Survey, and it's easy to see why: The six-figure price tags often carried by custom application equipment can devastate a dealership's cash flow.