Harvesting spring wheat in Montana

[Hendrik]

mostly speaking for the US Market here, for Gleaner, Agco in general:

sure investors want to see a return on their investments, that is why I cannot fathom the idea why agco is not trying to actively develope a larger dealer network in this country. I think they have several good product lines with an opprotunity to capture more market share, just would like to see more representation of the agco lines.

I would imagine that they are trying to get more dealers but that is not an easy thing with most established dealers selling red or green (and perhaps yellow http://www.myclaas.com/press/index.aspx?lexion ).

 

[North Texan]

Fiat owns Case New Holland.

AGCO is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia and is its own corporation.

I'm sure AGCO would like to have a larger dealership network, but they have two problems. One is outside of the tracked challenger tractors sold at Caterpillar dealerships, they have several tractor brands, but none of them are very popular in the U.S. Without a wide variety of equipment to sell and work on, especially tractors, its difficult to make a dealership work. Combines are seasonal. Here in my part of the world, wheat harvest takes about 3 weeks. The rest of the year, there isn't a combine running. Tractors, if not running year round, will be running almost year round. Tractors are what makes the dealership profitable. Unless AGCO can make their tractor line more appealing to farmers, they aren't going to have a dealership network anywhere close to CNH or Deere.

 

[Monte1255]

I would imagine that they are trying to get more dealers but that is not an easy thing with most established dealers selling red or green (and perhaps yellow http://www.myclaas.com/press/index.aspx?lexion ).

getting back to the gleaner combines..........regardless of what style they build axial rotor or cross rotor, I sincerely hope that gleaner does well. I've owned agco's and whites for years and feel that another option would be good.:usa