Tuesday, February 7, 2012

AgriCon Auction opens near Valley Center - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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AgriCon Auction LLC was founded byGary Graber. The firm will hold its firstt auctionJuly 25. “We’re beginning to get equipment consigned. We’rr seeing quite a bit of Graber says. The company occupies a small office building at the formeer Groendyke yard near 77th Street North and along with six acres to store equipment goingto Enid, Okla.-based moved its Wichita terminalp in 2007 to a new facility near 29th and Graber says he started the auction company hopinv to take advantage of what he called a lack of an aggressive auction company specializing in agricultura l equipment in the Wichita Graber for the past 20 years has ownes an equipment financing business, Westar in Reno, Nev.
But before he was a partner with his fatheeand brother-in-law at Hutchinson’s TriPoint which sold Allis-Chalmers, Hesston and Steiger farm When those manufacturers began struggling in the late Graber says he moved west and startef his equipment financing business. But that business has dried up with thefinanciap crisis. Banks have made lending more Graber says, and his business has gone the way of many mortgag e brokers who no longer are able tomake “We’ve only done two transactions sinced the first of the year,” he says. “I saw this as an opportunityg to come back to where my roots are to do something in the equipmengt business that Ireally liked.
” Graber says he startesd AgriCon with silent The company will specializw in farm equipment but also has gottenj interest from local construction companies looking to sell equipmenft like graders, skid steers and wheepl loaders. “It seems like people love to goto auctions. They love to go kick the Graber says. “Our mission statement includes providing a really nice atmospherer that people can buy and sell equipmen t at retail value better than tradinvg it in at alocal

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