Aug 29,2023 Farmer Turned Dealer.. Article by Farm Equipment.com Mark Muench, a fifth-generation farmer in Ogden, Iowa, opened a Salford dealership in his farm shop in 2012. In 2009, Mark Muench of Ogden, Iowa, was getting frustrated about the lack of development for tillage equipment. He felt that it was one aspect of agriculture that had come to a standstill as far as new developments and improvements go. After trying Salford tillage equipment, he felt like he was getting closer to what he wanted. Fast forward to the fall of 2012, and Muench is running a Salford dealership out of his farm shop. He sold his first machine in 2013. Today, he says that his Salford dealership is the largest single-location dealership in Iowa, and that they sell more parts than any dealership in the state. “I had been strip-tilling corn on corn for a few years, and I was having trouble managing corn residue,” Muench says. “That’s why I bought the first Salford, to chop up the residue. I wanted to redu