They dropped their used equipment sales two years ago.

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

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

The gains were driven in part by an increase of 11 percent in equipment sales.

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

Dollars from equipment sales may be down but Xerox is placing a lot of machines.

The United States, for that matter, also approves most equipment sales.

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

Revenue from equipment sales to land line phone companies was $645 million in the quarter, down 18 percent from a year earlier.

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