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    New Tractor manufacturer

    Yanmar bought into Sonalika/Solis a few years back. After the Yanmar-Cub Cadet jv split a few years ago, Yanmar began selling under their own name in the USA after being absent for decades. Yanmar has designed and built for John Deere for decades as well. Now, they have introduced Solis to USA...
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    Importer for Iseki

    Iseki has built compacts for Massey Ferguson for years, as well as Challenger, Bolens, AGCO, White and licensed designs to TYM. You can probably find one of those that is equivalent and parts and service supported by dealers.
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    Korean tractors Brands and History

    Thank you, I actually researched and wrote the articles most of this was pulled from on Tractor & Construction Plant Wiki under Scoty7667. It is AMAZING the number of tractor companies in operation today, both marketers and manufacturers, let alone the number that are no longer in business...
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    Bobcat Tractors coming back in 2019

    Doosan Bobcat to enter N. American agricultural tractor market - ???? ???? ??(Pulse) Announced july 26, 2018, Doosan Bobcat and Daedong have a new agreement for tractors beginning in 2019. Reading the press-release for 2018, it sounds just like the agreement signed in 2007 with only the dates...
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    Tractor News  Farmtrac to return to USA??

    Escorts to exit tractor assembly operations in US This news release, dated April 27, 2010, says Escorts has decided to close its US assembly operations... (2 years after it went into receivership and the assets were sold to Montana Tractors!!!) ... and instead set up distributors that will...
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    How about a forum for Challenger?

    "As far as I know they're all made by Iseki. Mine is." You are mistaken, but we'll fix that. The Challenger MT200-series tractors are indeed built by Iseki in Japan (as is the AGCO ST-series, the MF GC-series, and previous tractors by Bolens, White, etc...). The Challenger MT300-series are...
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    Agco and Their Troubles With Persian Orange

    It was towards the beginning of McCormick, but it is marked as licensed from McCormick.
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    Agco and Their Troubles With Persian Orange

    Again, I purchased by Scale Models McCormick toys from Scale Models and from dealers that purchase directly from Scale Models. They weren't shipped overseas and then back. Direct from factory to me, and direct from factory to dealer to me.
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    Agco and Their Troubles With Persian Orange

    Someone had mentioned that you cannot purchased McCormick toys or branded items in the USA due to licensing restrictions. I purchased 2 McCormick toy tractors years ago when the brand was first revitalized by ARGO. They were sold in the U.S., and manufactured in the U.S. by Scale Models...
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    What's happened to TAFE?

    So, what has happened to TAFE in the USA??? I read that in 2006 or 2007 they purchased Robison & Grissom, the US distributor. They were at the 2007 National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville with a nice selection of tractors, including tractors that go up to 90hp. I know they are supplying...
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    Who makes AGCO tractors?

    AGCO was formed in 1990 to purchased the Deutz-Allis and Gleaner brands from KHD (Deutz-Fahr) in Germany. (DF is now owned by Same Deutz-Fahr, an Italian company). AGCO later bought White (Oliver, Cockshutt, Minneapolis-Moline), White-New Idea (New Idea and White equipment), Hesston (hay...
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    challenger

    Sisu engines are a part of VALTRA, which AGCO purchased in 2004. Some models are built in the Massey factory, with Caterpillar or Challenger Endurance (Sisu) engines. There are some built in Brazil at the Valtra factory there for sale outside of the USA, (the WT series). Iseki builds the...
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    AGCO ALLIS 7600

    This model was built in Italy by SAME and is the same as the SAME Laser 100.
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