I went round a few of the machinery stands at Cereals to see how rising costs, etc were affecting their sales. There was a general feeling that sales for the first half of 08 had been very good (some had broken annual sales targets already!), but likely to slow down a fair bit for the second half of the year - not surprising given cost of fuel, fert.
New kit prices for most of those I spoke to were up about 10% on last year. They say it's because of rising steel & rubber costs plus exchange rate fluctuations - cynics might say part of the rise was due to them cashing in on higher cereal/ oilseed prices!! 
Longer lead times were the other issue - I spoke to someone who had been told he'd have to wait four months for a set of new tyres.
Interested to hear how anyone else has got on buying new kit....or are you all saving your money to fill the diesel tank?! 
Paul