Market & Equipment Insights for September 2026

Corn just had its best month since April 2021 and was up 15% in August alone, above $5 for the first time since October 2023. But if you're expecting the equipment market to turn on a dime, the data says pump the brakes. Andy Campbell breaks down 4,600 dealer transactions from the Farm Progress Show floor, covering row crop tractor velocity, margin erosion on low-hour units, and why the corn-to-margin correlation isn't as clean as you'd think.