Over all, it said, mobile equipment sales will probably be off 10 percent for the year.

But sales of medical equipment rose 6.4 percent to 50 billion yen.

"Now that the farmers are making some money, the economics point to increased equipment sales."

They dropped their used equipment sales two years ago.

It said equipment sales fell to $4.01 billion from $4.06 billion.

Analysts even saw a downside to the rise in equipment sales.

Bergen has $1 billion in sales of medical and surgical equipment.

Lawrence was especially effective in increasing sales of books and equipment, which he helped grow to over $3.5 million annually.

With more wonderful software available, sales of hi-fi equipment took off.

Its worldwide agricultural equipment sales for the quarter jumped 19 percent from a year ago, to more than $1.3 billion.