Better chance than not a few will fall by the wayside as things get worse. And times will get worse. The fall has just started with no sign of the decline slowing yet. Homeowner/"ranchette" tractor markets will take a harder hit in the near term than AG markets, but in due time, that will likely slow too.
Keep in mind that MOST of our concerns are based primarily on US markets and US economic conditions. Granted the WORLD economy is in turmoil, but a couple major markets are currently eating up tractors. (China/India) Times like today are why all the big players started "globalizing" decades ago. It's the ol' "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" theory put to the test.
20 to 25 years ago, the farm industry went through some of the toughest times since the great depression. The 80's took out a BUNCH of what were perceived as strong companies along with a great many "successful farmers". The equipment market was flat for years after because production of equipment prior to those times was at such a high level, the economic downturn left a glut of used late model tractors, combines, ect, that served as competition to the new market for years to follow. Several big players dried up and went away, or were in such dire straits, they ended up selling their "name" to a handful of brands who had the assets and good management to hang on. THAT's what it will take now. GOOD MANAGEMENT. The comment was made earlier in this thread how only the producers of the "best" equipment will make it. While that may be true to some extent, it isn't a lock. International Harvester was arguably one of the 2 "best in the business" when the 1980's and bad management teamed up to bring them to their knees. About 1975, if you would have walked into any meeting of farmers and said that in 10 years IH was going to be selling off what's left of a broken company, you would have been laughed right out the door. But that happened.
For the near future, it won't be so much about growth as it will be about survival skills and adaptation to changing times.
See y'all back here in 20 years to take stock of who survived and who didn't.