Has Mahindra Passed Deere in sales?

[sweettractors]

The tractor two tractor companies that comes out on top in Africa by 2050 may be the world leaders in tractor sales too.

We export some equipment to Africa and the only 2 names that will even be considered is Massey Ferguson and Ford/New Holland. It has been this way ever since I can remember. Lots of work for other manufacturers to do to play catch up. Ken Sweet

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

I'm still waiting for a number....?

 

[/pine]

I'm still waiting...

patience is a virtue...

 

[DavesTractor]

I'm still waiting for a number....?

Me too, you were to provide the amount of Kubota tractors sold worldwide in 2009 to make sure it was more than peanuts.

 

[rbcsaver]

Since a baby, (54 yrs ago) I have always been "in love" with tractors, dating back to my Grandfather's farm in Flemington, NJ. He had Deeres', Int. Harvesters, and more. My first "tractor" was a new Gravely 10 HP Tecumseh lawn/garden tractor which cost me a fortune ($4000) at the time. I still have it today, almost 30 yrs later and use it routinely! It was the only shaft driven lawn and garden tractor at the time. Of course, all of this was pre-internet! The original mower deck belt "finally" broke a year ago. I did have some other $ issues with clutches etc., but the extra $ for a top notch USA product has more than paid off. My wife used to board her horses at a place that used Craftsman lawn and garden tractors. They went through 2 tractors in 5 yrs, as if disposable. Their costs, including repairs far surpassed in 5 years what I spent over 25 at the time. Almost all Lawn ans GArden tractors are built by one company today, but NONE will running in 30 yrs., as mine does!

Six years ago, when we purchased our current home, it quickly became clear that my Gravely was much too small. I looked at Deere and Kubota, because they are the closest dealers to me. I purchased a "loaded" Kubota 7510 because they had 0 % financing for 3 yrs vs the Deere and it seemed adequate for my wifes' horses and mowing, etc. Of course I added the Markham Tooth Fork, alternator, aux. lights etc. It has been a good Tractor.

However, when we added 12 more acres, and another horse, it just wasn't enough HP and I want/need a backhoe. Plus, the "local" Kubota down-sized to one location further away
In April, I saw that Deere was having a 0% for 5 yrs. I traveled to my local (30 mins) Deere dealer and purchased a 4320 (48 HP turbo) with FEL.
I love this tractor! It has so much HP/Torque vs the Kubota to pull my Land Pride 5ft Rake and Box Blade!

Americans are always first (Capitalism) to buy the cheapest product, yet lament and complain about the loss of American jobs. Even Deere had some tractors with Yanmar (3 cylinder, same as Kubota) engines and components. I said "NO," I want American made and I made the purchase. My Deere motor is a 4 cylinder turbo!

My point. We get everything we pay for. Over-seas is often cheaper, but not always better. Kubota customer service for example, isn't great. If you buy a lot of over seas
products, don't complain about job losses.
regards,
rbcsaver

 

[tractorboy5500]

This is fairly simple to figure out, look at the Mahindra section and John Deere's section on this forum which is,

Mahindra buying and pricing --- threads is 263 posts is 2925
Mahindra owning and operating --threads is 2629 posts is 23579


John Deere buying and pricing --- threads is 4645 posts is 50561
John Deere owning and operating --- threads is 9212 posts is 83841
John Deere lawn and garden ---- threads is 811 posts is 6686


Like i said before i own a Mahindra tractor and I like it, but as it shows John Deere sells way more tractors than Mahindra. Or if not, more people like to talk about it. As some one said before show me, well here it is.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Are we talking about sales in the areas where people from tractorbynet post or world wide sales?

 

[tractorboy5500]

I knew this comment was going to pop up, well its still hard to say, even though this is the word wide web, I do see people from other counties posts from time to time, but not near as in the USA, but there is alot of differnts in the numbers just in the threads and posts here.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

In the scheme of life it really makes little difference I am sure to most who is even selling tractors. :laughing:

As a JD owner I would like to think it was JD selling the most but since it is reported a head at JD has stated Mahindra will surpass them in world wide sales I will take JD's word on the subject.

If it was an event JD could have prevented I expect the statement would not have been made by JD. I expect JD may still be ahead in number of HP sold but big tractors are not as common where the income is lower perhaps.

 

[sweettractors]

Is Deere making progress on getting into China and India to reach the bigger market base? I bet those 2 countries probably make it difficult for them to get in and compete. Ken Sweet