cheoah
Bronze Member
global manufacturing
I visited a Brazilian tractor factory a couple of years ago -- Valtra, south of Sao Paulo. Very impressive, really.
Would be very interesting to see the Deere assembly plant in GA (or Mannheim) and compare it to what I saw in Brazil. They had a nice factory, clean and organized and with some quality materials. Brazilian farmers need dependable machines to run their tens of thousands of acres of crops. The second picture is an equipment shed of one farms I visited, with over 35,000 acres. There were 16 cotton pickers in this shed, but they grew beans and corn too. Big combines, the biggest, traded in every couple of years.
You may not be buying a Japanese tractor but if you buy a 5000M series you'll be buying a Mexican made engine, I think Brazilian Hydraulics, a Chinese Transmission and a US made cab, only assembled in GA, not made in GA. If you buy a 2WD the front axle will be from India, someone needs to go over there and teach them how to weld. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the M series but just so you'll know that's basically what you're getting. Nearly all cast iron parts are being casted in India and China these days.
I visited a Brazilian tractor factory a couple of years ago -- Valtra, south of Sao Paulo. Very impressive, really.
Would be very interesting to see the Deere assembly plant in GA (or Mannheim) and compare it to what I saw in Brazil. They had a nice factory, clean and organized and with some quality materials. Brazilian farmers need dependable machines to run their tens of thousands of acres of crops. The second picture is an equipment shed of one farms I visited, with over 35,000 acres. There were 16 cotton pickers in this shed, but they grew beans and corn too. Big combines, the biggest, traded in every couple of years.