14 CapitalPress.com Friday, January 4, 2019 Kubota co-sponsors NW Ag Show By MITCH LIES For the Capital Press Courtesy Kubota Kubota Tractor Corp. will be displaying a full line of farm equipment well suited to Northwest agricultural production at the Northwest Ag Show. farmer is replacing one trac- tor every 15 or 20 years or longer,” Wilcox said. Through its many deal- ers, Kubota sells construc- tion and farm equipment around the world. Some of its farm equipment is especially well suited for the North- west, where specialty crops, such as wine grapes, berries and orchard crops, are widely produced. “Our tractors aren’t big enough to get too much into commodity crops,” Wil- cox said. “We are more into pears, cherries, blueberries, caneberries, some row crops, vineyards, cattle, hay and those kinds of markets. gon State Fairgrounds, but believes it will be a tradeoff of sorts for Kubota. “It is going to be interest- ing because we had a lot of people come to the Ag Show when it was at the (Portland) Expo Center from Southwest Washington and up toward Chehalis, (Wash.),” he said. “We had cranberry growers coming over from Southwest Washington. We had dairy farmers from Tillamook. We had cherry growers and pear growers coming in from Hood River and The Dalles. “I don’t know if those people will make the trip to Salem,” he said. “I hope they do, but it is a longer drive for them. So, we may lose some people there, but hopefully we gain a lot more people being in the heart of the Wil- lamette Valley.” VISIT US AT BOOTHS 1601 & 1605! KIOTI Compact Tractor Massey Ferguson 1840 Baler SHOW SPECIALS on Tractors & Hay Equipment YOUR LOCAL FARM & EQUIPMENT SUPPLY SINCE 1889 FISCHER MILL SUPPLY, INC. TRACTORS - LAWN EQUIPMENT - IMPLEMENTS - PARTS - SERVICE - FEED - HARDWARE 503.631.3411 • Dean 503.781.0846 • Colin 503.631.3411 • www.fischermillsupply.com 20990 S. Fischer Mill Rd, Oregon City, OR NWAG19-4/106 Exit #10 off I-205 to 2nd light. Right to Redland Rd. to Redland Store. Left to Fischer Mill Supply. 9 miles from I-205. NWAG19-4/103 Brad Wilcox, regional sales manager for Kubota Tractor Corp., said Kubota sells to hobby farmers and contractors, but the commer- cial farmer has been the com- pany’s bread and butter at the Northwest Ag Show. “Hobby farmers are great, but we hope we get a very diversified group of custom- ers into the (2019 Northwest) Ag Show,” he said. “The commercial farmers are the ones that put a lot of hours on our tractors and replace them more often. “They look at the depre- ciation schedule, the cost of maintenance, and they are the ones who are replac- ing tractors every four or five years, where the hobby “We make great vineyard and orchard tractors and we have a very strong share in those markets,” he said. Kubota has been showing at the Northwest Ag Show for about as long as any major dealer, said Wilcox, who noted this will be his 20th show. This year, for the first time, Kubota is a co-sponsor. “That part is new for us. Historically we’ve spon- sored different aspects of the show, like free parking and other minor things,” he said. “But we thought we needed to help kick off the show and get it restarted after a year of not having it. And the pack- age that EO Media Group put together was attractive to us.” Wilcox said he likes that the ag show has changed venue from the Portland Expo Center to the Ore-