Papé Machinery Agriculture & Turf acquires Valley Truck & Tractor

Dec 21, 2021

Papé, a John Deere agriculture and turf equipment dealer, acquires nine more with acquisition of California company.

By Andrew Joseph, Farms.com, Photo by Chris Robert on Unsplash

You can never have too much Deere.

Papé Machinery Agriculture & Turf has acquired Valley Truck & Tractor, owners of nine John Deere dealerships in California’s Chico, Colusa, Dixon, Elk Grove, Gridley, Robbins, Willow, Woodland, and Yuba City areas.

“We welcome our new customers and employee members to Papé,” said Ryan Papé, President of Papé Machinery Agriculture & Turf. “All of us with Papé are dedicated to earning our customer’s business every day with consistent, quality customer service that maximizes their uptime 24/7.”

Papé Machinery Agriculture & Turf is an authorized dealer for the full line-up of John Deere agriculture and turf equipment, and now spreads its customer services to 44 locations throughout California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

The company also provides an expansive network of locations throughout the western US to help customers meet their capital equipment sales, rental and service needs through its other entities within the Group: Papé Machinery Construction & Forestry, Papé Material Handling, Papé Kenworth, Ditch Witch West, A Papé Company, and Engineered Products, A Papé Company.

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