Companies like Happy Farm maker Five Minutes [CN] or Rekoo are already successful outside their home territory (making serious money in the US and Japan, respectively), and nobody should be too surprised to see the next Zynga coming out of Beijing or Shanghai.
Here are just a few recent examples: Coca-Cola invested in Fair Oaks Farms, maker of sustainable milk products, Campbell acquire Plum Organics, Post Holdings Inc. acquire protein beverages and foods maker Premier Nutrition Corp., and Steve Madden acquire Dolce Vita Holdings Inc. Struggling to innovate, large corporations in consumer and retail have suffered a steady decline in market share.
Farm equipment makers like Caterpillar, Deere and CNH project strong exports of farm tractors and combines.
Deere is one of the world's largest farm machinery makers.
Other analysts disagreed, instead making comparisons to Caterpillar and Deere, farm equipment makers that successfully added financing arms.
Deere & Company, one of the world's largest farm equipment makers, said today that profits in its most recent quarter fell 24percentt on continued slack demand for farm equipment but still beat Wall Street estimates.
Our list includes biofuels companies, commodities and fertilizer concerns, farm equipment makers, and railcar and rail equipment manufacturers.
The paper presents a viable design of the system supported by a working prototype and a set of reports for farm decision makers.
The deal would make Agco, the third-largest farm equipment maker, the leading manufacturer of self-propelled sprayers for farm fields.
The farm equipment maker Deere & Company said it had agreed to buy Lesco, a maker of fertilizer and seeds, for about $132.6 million to bolster its landscape division.
