Trade shows and product announcements show off what is available now with new tractor technologies, but what about what's under development to improve performance and sales opportunities? Details are proprietary, but product experts from several tractor manufacturers highlight new developments in Rural Lifestyle Dealer's new "Technology Trends" series.

Rural Lifestyle Dealer's new series highlights dealership happenings. Send your news to Managing Editor Lynn Woolf, lwoolf@lessitermedia.com.

Thirty-seven percent of contractors indicate that they will purchase more new equipment, while 27% indicate they will purchase more used equipment in 2018, according to a report from the Equipment Leasing & Financing Foundation.

"Your goal is to create a compensation program that is performance based, so the higher the performance, the more the employee makes," says Bob Clements.