Top 5 Agricultural Equipment Manufacturers?

[rambler]

I am not sure what your point is, so I will just ask. What is your point?

Any manufaturerer will pick out the statistics that favor their own company. We are the biggest, best, most widely sold, etc.

Wikipedia is written by general pubic who may not have the best research instincts, may be a bit biased by their own color preference, and probably got their info from the before mentioned company web sites that are not presenting real statistical info, but using statistics to blow their own horn.

In short, the info seems to be lacking any sort of accuracy here?

I have always heard that Agco is the biggest player on the global ag market, but I don't have any real info at hand to back that up either.

There are a bazillion 20 hp Chineese tractors all over the globe made by 3 nationally owned Chineese companies, which might make the Chineese govt the biggest ag producer in number of units sold? But each one is a cheap thing, so they don't sell the most $$$ per year for sure! So are we talking units sold per year, or dollars sold per year, or are we talking number of units sold since the beginning of time, or the number of units still being used, or .... Well there are a lot of ways to measure how big something is.

It all depends on how you word the question, who is biggest - in dollars sold, in units sold, which parent company do you use, are we now including construction equipment, etc.

For a good answer, we would need a carefully worded question of what counts, what doesn't count. More than one ag manufaturer claims they are the biggest - based on a slightly different view of what counts.

In general I have heard over the past decade or 2 that Agco is biggest around the globe based on our common general understanding of 'biggest'.

But, we can certainly prove some other company is, by changing what we mean a little bit.

--->Paul