[AT] Bringing tractor production to the USA was Volvo Tractor

[James Peck]

Agco moved production of the larger Challenger and Massey Ferguson wheeled tractors from Beauvais, Normandy,  France, to Jackson, Minnesota. How can we argue with that? True, they did quit painting any of them orange like they had been doing at Beauvais. 

I bet we find that French wages, benefits, and work rules make Jackson a cheaper place to manufacture.

I have never seen anything from Agco linking them to Sears. Sears lost their mojo.

I bet there is a downside to online tractor parts manuals. What is it?

[Cecil Bearden] IMHO, Agco is the worst thing that hit the agriculture scene in the last 25 years.

They stated they were going to be the Sears & Roebuck for agriculture. They also said it made no difference where a tractor or equipment was made.   So the same model may be different on the inside and you have to have the serial number to find the right part.   I have enough problems with that on my Caterpillar equipment.   The biggest problem is finding the right part on my E110B trackhoe it was made by Mitsubishi for Cat, but they changed the hydraulics 4 times in the models produced.