The Country 13/06/25: Rick Ladd talks to Jamie Mackay

Brandt’s director of sales comments on tractor sales, the true barometer of Fieldays.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is Rick lad here? Where is he there? I'm just
going to get Rick up at the moment. Rick is
the director of sales for Brent our wonderful sponsors here,
and we have a green tractor to give away to
someone who wants a toy tractor. So well, there's some
people over there while I will decide that in a moment.

(00:20):
But hey, Rick, great to catch up again. You were
on on Wednesday and a lot of anticipation. It was
only half a day in really good inquiry. People don't
buy tractors on Wednesdays and Thursdays. At field days, they look,
they kick the tires. So today a lot of business
will be transacted for perhaps in the next couple of weeks.
Tell me how it's gone. I tractor sales are the

(00:42):
barometer of field days. How good have these field days been,
Jamie Bass?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
If what I've seen mate, over the last twelve years
that have been coming in this capacity in sales, I
would say this has been the most buoyant I've ever
seen it. You can tell by just by talking to people, mate,
if this is a genuine inquiry they're talking about trades.
Because you're right, we go back. We have to go
praise their trades eight times out of ten. We've got
to go take on a trade as part of selling tractors,

(01:06):
all right, so we can go back catch up, and
then we're all about relationships and we go back to that,
go back to that local dealership. We try to get
as many salesman as we can spread through the country
on site. But yeah, your question is as a been
boint mate, Yu said, is it's game changer? Been good?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
So as normally I guess if you're turning over a
tractor every I don't know, eight or nine years or
something like that. I don't know what the shelf life
of is of these modern tractors, but as your trade
normally enough to get your deposit for these finance deals
you're running.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, it is with John Dere and it's resale Jamie,
well done, Yes it is you can do. If we're
sitting around that thirty percent forty percent deposit. Again, we
tried to bring that with my finite structures that are
put in today and to get those low interest rates.
Historically they've had to come at a at a quite
a heavy contribution to the deal. But I've tried to
keep that deposit as low as we can to to really,
you know, there's no point being cash flow conscious when

(01:56):
we're asking for a trade plus a whole lot of
cash to get a competitive and interest rates. So no, no,
it's it's been good. And yeah, generally with John dere
the traders covered in that deposit.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay, you've got a special deal on for that ninety
five horse power tractor. This is kind of your base model,
John Deare, but it's got the bells and whistles, it's
got the loader and all that sort of stuff with
the ideal handy tractor around the farm. Tell us about that.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, so that's our the five ninety five horsepower and yeah,
that's got point ninety five percent finance. That's a that's
a wicked little tractor. So that's got a touch of
our six thousand series on it too. It's now got
the power quad transmission well proven since the nineties and
so they've brought that down into the five thousands, which
has been huge for John Deare. And it's got a
half framed chassis lifting capacity of a six thousand on

(02:41):
the rear. And yeah, it's a great.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Tractor for us. How does this tractor go?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
The seven R three dirty mate. We've got a few
of those around it. They're good tractor, mate, well, good
high horsepower, short wheelbase tractor. Jay, here we go.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
We've got the tractor to giveaway to someone here at
Mystery Creek. And put your hands up if you want this,
and and Rick you can pick somebody.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Mate. We're going for these little too. Down to the
end the blue on the left hand side.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
There that lady there was she going to play with
the tractor herself. Is this for children or grand grandkids?
Where are you from? Fun raight? Oh? Are there? You go?
A good client. Both the sons have got green tractors
and now the grandson. There we go right good on you. Hey, listen,

(03:27):
thank you very much, and thank you for coming along. Well,
it's wonderful. We're going to take a break here at
Mystery Creek. Well done, Rick, thanks for supporting us, mate,