Tractor Brands Market Share

[jeff9366]

Your "PROBABLY" explanation is too big a speculation for me.

2-WD and 4-WD are pretty simple descriptors, used in virtually all tractor spec tables.

FARM TRACTOR leads every tractor section of the report. No wiggle room there.


Let us see MHarryE's explanation.

 

[ptsg]

Your "PROBABLY" explanation is too big a speculation for me.

2-WD and 4-WD are pretty simple concepts, used in virtually all tractor spec tables.

Let us see MHarryE's explanation..

I would rather call it Articulated tractors, would make a lot more sense and create much less confusion.

However, ask anyone on the forum that has worked on a farm what a 4WD tractor is and see what they will tell you. This has been discussed a couple times by the way.

 

[jeff9366]

Source: Deere & Co.

Of the 305,000 tractors bought in North America last year, some 68% were models with less than 40 horsepower, according to Deere. The big rigs, meanwhile, are fallow. The market for tractors over 100 horsepower peaked in 2013. Last year, Americans bought just 6,605 combines.

 

[IndyJay]

Data Table in Post #31:

January - August 2021

2-WD UNITS IN TOTAL: 218,029

4-WD UNITS IN TOTAL: 2,039

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I wonder if they are counting Lawn and Garden "tractors" in the 2WD category?
Even then, the count for 4WD seems woefully low unless these are for a single state.

 

[jeff9366]

I would expect the terms FARM TRACTOR and LAWN & GARDEN TRACTOR would be mutually exclusive.

 

[IndyJay]

I would expect the terms FARM TRACTOR and LAWN & GARDEN TRACTOR would be mutually exclusive.

As would I. Depends on who is collecting the data and the purpose for which it is collected. I am more inclined to agree with those who suggested that the distinction is true 4x4 agri vs compact with front wheel assist.

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

I don't know about the used market, but in the new market, Kubota has been able to make claims that they were the #1 selling in the USA within certain market segments. This was put out in press releases which you can probably find with a search.

It might have been Neil Messick that explained how the math works and how a company could be so bold to make a claim. There are reports by an industry association that tracks total sales numbers. They know how many tractors were sold each year in the US, in each segment, over all brands, and they publish that number. Each manufacturer is then able to determine their % (but have no idea about the % of competing brands).

Kubota was over 50% in some segments and that allowed them to make a "mathematical" claim that they were #1 without any doubt (anything less than 50% and you could not be #1 with certainty unless you knew competitor's numbers). They have made similar claims in various other size and HP segments over the years. Here are a couple "fine print" notes I found on their website just now:





Somewhere else we heard that overall Kubota was ballpark 50% and Deere was hovering around 20-25%. Which means all the other smaller brands combine for the remaining 25-30% of the market. This was compact tractors only, not including big Ag models.

"It might have been Neil Messick that explained how the math works and how a company could be so bold to make a claim."

Yep I have it right here:

 

[K5lwq]

The more research I do the less I know. Market share in North America is impossible to find without paying big bucks for a report.

If we could determine how many units were sold by each brand then we could do the math. Mahindra is the only one I found that shared that information and it was as a whole not by region or class.

There is so little information about market share in the US, I doubt even if you paid for a report you could trust it is accurate.

So I guess you can say whatever you want and there would be no way to prove otherwise. So I will say Kioti has 65% of the market share.

 

[IndyJay]

It has 100% of the 2021 market share on my street...

 

[MoKelly]

Source: Deere & Co.

Of the 305,000 tractors bought in North America last year, some 68% were models with less than 40 horsepower, according to Deere. The big rigs, meanwhile, are fallow. The market for tractors over 100 horsepower peaked in 2013. Last year, Americans bought just 6,605 combines.

If Deere knows this information, then why can’t they publish their market share? They know how many of the 305,000 tractors were their brands.

MoKelly