Farm equipment dealers and distributors in Australia are eagerly awaiting official figures confirming a second bumper year of tractor sales.

Despite some cooling of market sentiment early on in the second-half of 2017, in large part due to a challenging harvest, there was a subsequent mini boom in sales of smaller tractors. This together with a better than expected demand for 100-200 horsepower units had the market heading toward another record.

Sales of large tractors…