[AT] Bringing tractor production to the USA

[James Peck]

When Agco bought the Challenger brand from Caterpillar, they expanded the plant in Jackson and moved tracked Challenger production there. Assembling the wheeled tractors at Jackson required another plant expansion.

[ Jason] Most manufacturing plants are located these days where the largest market for those exists. From there they are shipped around the world. Large frame tractors are built in the US for Deere, CaseIH and New Holland.  It makes sense for Agco do to the same. 

[James] When Seἣora Kirchner was president of Argentina she jawboned Agco into assembling tractors there. Agco had been happy enough selling Brazilian made product in Argentina. I wonder if that mandate has been undone. I do not know if any of those Brazilian made tractors are ending up in the US.
 
[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 track hoe it was made by Mitsubishi for Cat, but they changed the hydraulics 4 times in the models produced.