More AGCO aquisitions

 Well I guess Agco just upped the order on those Massey decals.  The shame of it is in a few years when they have the controlling interest they will can some good pieces of machinery along the way.  Sometimes I question their progress.

3 more brands to put on the "Do Not Buy" list. I purchased a new disc this spring and it came down to Wil-Rich or Krause, bought the Krause and as of this info am sure glad I did! Can see it coming now, red MF disc - Wishek series, what blasphemy.

Isn't Agco a "mature" company that doesn't need to aquire other companies any more because they have the technology to design whatever the market needs or wants? Or some such BS like that.

I think whatever AGCO will do or try to do people with have something negative to say. They still have a good product going for them.

Dave in il wrote: Isn't Agco a "mature" company that doesn't need to aquire other companies any more because they have the technology to design whatever the market needs or wants? Or some such BS like that.

Exactly. Now that I think about it more, if a companies leader is willing to flat-out lie to people, maybe we don't want the Allis Chalmers heritage associated with THEM!

Why would it be a puzzle?  A company in north america needs air seeding equipment to be a full line company.  It makes sense to me.

What do Monarch Tractor Company, La Crosse Plow, Baldwin Harvestor Co. have in common? Of course they are three companies that were purchased by Allis Chalmers. They didn't exactly go down the sh!t shoot when and because AC aquired them. 

Spud wrote: Why would it be a puzzle?  A company in north america needs air seeding equipment to be a full line company.  It makes sense to me.

Spud, As far as it being a joint venture, or aquisiton, I looked back at the aricle, and it states : "AGCO, based in Duluth, GA, will aquire 50% interest in selected air seeding and tillage product lines currently sold under the Amity, wil-rich and Wishek brand names."    It does say in the headline, though, that it is a partnership. Best grab youself a Farm and Ranch Guide, go to page 32A, and check it out.  Myself, I'm not so against the deal, I'm sure that if AGCO didn't have their fingers in it, Some one else would shortly. My main peeve with AGCO is probably like everyone else's in the fact the it seems like AGCO is ashamed of the fact that Allis Chalmers is in their ancestry, and they want to erase them from their past. When in fact, if there hadn't been an AC, there wouldn't be an AGCO.  Darrel

There is also the comment about competitors, if you can't beat them, buy them.

SHAMELESS wrote: have ya'll seen the new "heritage" advertizement from agco??

Is this a print advertisement or a television commercial? I haven't seen it yet. I will have to start watching closer.

JC, your statement above means that the LT, RT, and DT tractors switching from orange is really a moot point. Being built in France, they most certainly fall under the heading of "imported crap" Beauvais, France is a long way from the "good ole USA".

Edited by GBACBFan - 23 Nov 2010 at 7:00pm

GBAC,
It's one of the things that I'm ticked off from.  I bought my AGCO, in large part, due to that fact that it was orange and the Allis Gleaner Company.  My dealer, however nice, is over 60 miles away and I can only begin to tell you how many dealers are closer that aren't AGCO.  Anyway, I'm a made in USA guy.  I search long and hard to find quality made in USA things.  My RT100A is my biggest purchase, (besides our farm and it cost almost 40% as much as our farm),  and it's foreign.   Is it a nice tractor?  Yup.  I actually love it.  But, I wouldn't buy it again, if it were Red, because in that hp range their are still tractors made in USA. 

It's one of my crazy understandings of crazy farmers, me being one.  That a man has a rough time matching his shirt and socks and most of the time won't even care.  But, if he can't match his equipment up it gets his goat. 

Byron WC in SW Wi wrote: It's one of my crazy understandings of crazy farmers, me being one.  That a man has a rough time matching his shirt and socks and most of the time won't even care.  But, if he can't match his equipment up it gets his goat.

Edited by GBACBFan - 24 Nov 2010 at 5:02pm

I'm still struggling with some of the double sided arguments (emotional decisions justifying good business decisions, the importance of made in USA and trashing foreign made product except for AGCO tractors, the unacceptability of having a new tractor painted per taste vs the need to buy it orange from the factory, the position that because of one unpopular decision made by AGCO, everything they do is frogged up) but I will concede I now understand how emotion over anything else is the driver for some. There's nothing wrong with that, I just struggle to get my mind around that.

The mental pic of Byron happily wearing pink socks with an orange shirt but upset because his orange tractor is pulling a green plow helps me understand.