There are other brands of farm equipment besides John Deere. Deere is just one brand, far from a monopoly. How one company runs its dealer network and franchises is their business.
How many full line farm equipment manufactures are still US owned? Farm equipment is now a global market and manufacturers are gearing up to compete globally.
$41 million sounds like a lot of money for one individual, but that is a drop in the bucket for any investment fund. That same $41 million would only buy 5500 acres of $7,500 per acre farmland, about 1/3 of one six mile square township. There are a lot of farms that run far more acres than that today. Farms are now using investor's money to fund expansion too.
US farms are also consolidating fast. What will the US farm situation look like in another 20 to 30 years? Probably the majority of production will come from large farms running 10,000s of acres and more, with a smaller remaining portion coming from one person weekend farms running 1,000 acres or less. How should manufactures structure themselves to service those MEGA-farms?
I don't think it is practical to restrict the maximum size of dealer networks anymore than it is practical to restrict the maximum size of farms to 160 or 320 acres, 25 dairy cows or one semi load of feeder cattle.
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