Top 5 Agricultural Equipment Manufacturers?

[Duffster]

Unless you're reading some sort of subliminal message not available to the rest of us, "the whole point of this thread" was/is to determine who is #3 and who is #5 on the list, NOT who is #1, and/or #2. (Re-read post #1) Let's not start making up things as we go along. Stick with facts. Don't invent an answer and then make up a question that fits YOUR answer.

Even at that, with an unknown in TWO spots in this top five, and the numbers associated with those 2 others aren't available as of now, it's entirely possible that AGCO could possibly fit in EITHER slot. And THAT question, the one asked by the O.P., still remains at this juncture. Your "I think, therefore I know" logic has a GIANT flaw.

There is a strong likelyhood that AGCO is #3, but until such a time as hard evidence is prsented, it's just a guess on the part of ALL of us.


While those numbers MAY be accurate, they're just as likely skewed to a degree. (not scew, which isn't even a real word, with the possible exception of those appearing in your subliminal messages)

Thank for the English lesson.

Ever hear the old saying; "Figures lie because liars figure"?

The relative size of any of these manufacturers, by any measure, has little or nothing to do with the viability of the entity or quality or usefulness of any of their products related to others. What order they are listed in matters not a bit to me.

Nope, never heard of it but I doesn't really make sense either.

I understand that the relative size doesn't equate quality or usefulness but it was a interesting topic of conversation.

 

[RickB]

Nope, never heard of it but It doesn't really make sense either.

It means that given sufficient creativity, just about any data set can be manipulated to provide a predetermined result, one way or another.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Thank for the English lesson.



Nope, never heard of it but I doesn't really make sense either.

I understand that the relative size doesn't equate quality or usefulness but it was a interesting topic of conversation.

Just because something doesn't "make sense" to you, that alone doesn't make it wrong. It just means you don't understand.

And it wasn't an "english lesson"......it was a SPELLING lesson. Try to keep up.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

The Lexion Combines are no longer just a Cat dealer item. I have seen them at Claas dealers, and some others which before they were not.

The Lexion has always been available in Claas colors through Claas dealers. The Lexion was a joint venture between Claas and Cat and both companies owned the Lexion plant. It wasn't till CAT dropped out of the ag market that Claas took over complete control of the plant. CAT produced the track system available on the Lexion as well as the motors and Claas produced the rest of the machine with their knowledge of harvesting.

What other dealers beside CAT or Claas have you seen selling new Lexion harvesters?

 

[D7E]

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I forget which way it went, but John Deere (or Case?) bought out a self propelled sprayer maker, and to fullfill the contracts in place, had to ship them for a year or 2 with Case (or JD, if it's the other way engines in them.
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Did'nt case take over the Tyler patriot sprayers which had JD engines...Some of the AGchem machines were using deere motors for a while too in terragators....Yet deere used cummins 855's in some tractors and foragers...!!!!

 

[jagyzf]

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Did'nt case take over the Tyler patriot sprayers which had JD engines...Some of the AGchem machines were using deere motors for a while too in terragators....Yet deere used cummins 855's in some tractors and foragers...!!!![/QUOTE]

Deere sells a lot of Diesel engines and power shift trans (thse are under the Funk brand). They only use Cummins in high HP applications where they don't currently make an engine large enough to fill the bill.

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

I've always heard that based on global sales, including all divisions...

CNH
Deere
AGCO

If you pull the construction lines. I think its Agco, Deere, CNH.

its a crap shoot though, as was said... honest figures on this stuff are impossible to come by.

 

[Hoosier Hay Man]

We are lucky to have so many quality choices in the Ag business. The competion is intense and we all the benificaries of that.

Here is a video from the Claas Lexion web site. They are in the Guinness Books of World Records for harvesting the most grain in 8hrs in Sept. 2008. They beat out New Holland who captured the record a month earlier last year. Both are Great Combines! CLAAS of America Inc.-LEXION World Record

 

[DonWorrell]

Where does my tractor, as Mahindra 3325, fall in the mix?

Don

 

[Duffster]

I've always heard that based on global sales, including all divisions...

CNH
Deere
AGCO

If you pull the construction lines. I think its Agco, Deere, CNH.

its a crap shoot though, as was said... honest figures on this stuff are impossible to come by.

I thought Deere had a bigger construction division than CNH.