Gehl Company.

Gehl Company, West Bend, WI, announces plans to discontinue the manufacturing and distribution of its agricultural implement product lines. The Company's West Bend, WI, agricultural implement manufacturing operations will permanently close following the wind down of operations.

William D. Gehl, Gehl Company chairman and CEO, says, "The decision to discontinue the agricultural implement product lines is a response to the ongoing reduction of the Company's traditional dairy farmer customer base and the resultant decline in the Company's sales and earnings of its implement product lines. Although we are eliminating our agricultural implement product lines, we remain fully committed to our agricultural equipment dealers and customers through our continuing supply of compact equipment and ongoing parts and service support for the ag implement product lines."