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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 0-717 / 10-0614 Filed December 22, 2010 FECO, LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. HIGHWAY EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellee. ________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Fayette County, Richard D. Stochl, Judge. Equipment dealer appeals judgment in favor of equipment supplier. REVERSED AND REMANDED. R. Ronald Pogge of Hopkins & Huebner, P.C., Des Moines, and J. Michael Dady and Jeffrey S. Haff of Dady & Gardner, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for appellant. Samuel I. Kreamer of Kreamer Law Firm, P.C., West Des Moines, for amicus curiae Iowa-Nebraska Farm Equipement Association, Inc. Stephen J. Holtman, David A. Hacker, and Jason M. Steffens of Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman PLC, Cedar Rapids, for appellee.

Heard by Eisenhauer, P.J., and Potterfield and Doyle, JJ.

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EISENHAUER, P.J. FECO, Ltd, appeals from a ruling denying its claim for damages against Highway Equipment Company, Inc. (Highway Equipment). court misinterpreted Iowa Code section 322F.8(1) (2001). remand. For many years, FECO was an agricultural equipment dealer for Highway Equipment. The October 1, 1996 agreement between Highway Equipment, as supplier, and FECO, as dealer, constitutes a "dealership agreement" as defined by Iowa Code section 322F.1(3) ( 2003).1 By letter dated September 16, 2002, Highway Equipment cancelled its agricultural dealership agreement with FECO. Highway Equipment admits it did not have good cause, as defined by Chapter 322F, for terminating its dealership agreement with FECO. See Iowa Code

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