Agricultural machinery and tractor manufacturers production in Germany experienced an exceptionally good business year in 2017, a strong growth in turnover of 10%, to €7.9 billion ($9.7 billion). According to VDMA Agricultural Machinery Assn., this represented the second-best annual result ever achieved by the industry.
Expointer 2017, one the largest agricultural fairs in Latin America, was held Aug. 26-Sept. 3 in the city of Esteio, near Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, where most Brazilian grain growers buy their machinery.
It’s not a secret or surprising that farmers first look at reducing or totally eliminating purchases of equipment when they need to cut costs. This reality was further reinforced by a recent survey of more than 500 farmers by Farm Journal Media and posted on its AgWeb.com website on April 7.
Claas has placed a big bet on the future prosperity of Russian agriculture by investing the equivalent of $136 million building a new combine factory alongside an existing facility in Krasnodar, 800 miles south of Moscow.
Foton Lovol, one of China’s leading tractor and agricultural machinery manufacturers, has acquired an Italian maker of precision planters for undisclosed terms.
Following the boom of the past 3 years, demand for agricultural machinery in Europe has weakened in 2014, according to the European manufacturers’ association CEMA.
Sweden’s Trelleborg announced plans to open its first North American manufacturing facility dedicated to the production of premium radial tires for agricultural machinery.
The rapid growth of emerging markets worldwide is creating unprecedented demand for farm machinery, according to the Agrievolution Alliance, a global alliance of agriculture equipment manufacturing associations.
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The announcement of a partnership between New Holland and Bluewhite was one of the big precision stories of the summer. West Coast New Holland dealers now have the rights to sell, distribute and service Bluewhite’s aftermarket autonomy kits.