Charlie Glass

Jan 10, 2025 | rurallifestyledealer.com | Ben Thorpe |Dean DeVore |Charlie Glass |Bob Clements

The top-performing Rural Lifestyle Dealer content of 2024 highlights key industry news, manufacturer insights, and emerging trends in the rural lifestyle equipment market. As we enter the new year, we're excited to share the stories, interviews, and articles that resonated most with our audience over the past 12 months.

Sep 14, 2024 | farm-equipment.com | Charlie Glass

Glass Management Group has maintained data on U.S. tractor sales, by horsepower category, by month, since 1969 and this extensive data base has allowed the production of an annual Tractor and Combine Sales Forecast each November for the following calendar year, which has been published publicly since 1999.

Sep 12, 2024 | rurallifestyledealer.com | Charlie Glass

Glass Management Group has maintained data on U.S. tractor sales, by horsepower category, by month, since 1969 and this extensive data base has allowed the production of an annual Tractor and Combine Sales Forecast each November for the following calendar year, which has been published publicly since 1999.

Apr 19, 2024 | farm-equipment.com | Charlie Glass

Glass Management Group has been producing an annual forecast for tractors and combines for about the past 25 years and even though our 2024 forecast was not published, our models continued to produce a forecast for 2024. Those models indicated a decline in tractor numbers but the actual results so far in 2024 are even below those forecasted amounts. As we were reviewing the March AEM Flash Reports, it became obvious that there is something afoot that we had not anticipated.

Aug 14, 2023 | farm-equipment.com | Charlie Glass

My career in farm equipment began as the assistant chief engineer with a major shortline manufacturer in 1966. I grew up on a small farm and had other family members who were farming much larger farms, so I felt right at home in the industry. It did not take long for me to understand that the best job in the company was calling on farm equipment dealers, and that is where I wanted to be. My employer’s sales force was highly paid at the time, and those territories rarely came open.