New small SP Combine

I know the top of a new small SP combine in the has been bandied about...

I don't see the advantage of this machine over a 30 year old gleaner or deere. Esp at an extra $70000

Massy sold a small Brazilian made combine in North America but did not move any.  Everybody says the want small and simple but nobody will lay the money down.

Yeah there is a backrest.

That is like a research plot combine built in North America.  Small combine market is dead Tom continue your work on the All Crop is more effective 

New Research combines are roughly the same price of a regular combine =/- $300K At least thats what our local seed company told me when they bought a used MF plot machine last summer, I think it was a 95 model for $85K?

Seems like someone mentioned that JD still built 45,55 and 105's in South America. I wonder if they ever considered importing them to NA.  Also there was that Gleaner built in Mexico but it wasn't all that small.  Mahrinda built Jeep forward control pickups until the late '90s, suppose anyone in some third world country is building 30 year old design Gleaners (A II's)

Deere also sold a smaller combine imported from Europe.  The 4425 which later became the 4435.  It did not sell well either and was dropped.

I think deere still builds a version of the 4435 for mexico. Its called the 1450.

Edited by powertech84 - 28 Jan 2011 at 9:50am

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Here's an American company that makes edible bean combines, you might want to talk to them about producing a "conventional" pull type.

TomYaz wrote: powertech84 wrote: I think deere still builds a version of the 4435 for mexico. Its called the 1450.   So why dont the Mexican farmers just by a used Big Machine like here in the states?   thats one thing i dont get...Grain prices are relatively the same around the world--its a global commodity...Yet the small farmers elsewhere in the world can justify a new small machine, but in the States its hard to do....Is it simply a lack of good used big machines that is the reason?   Here is the 1450 in south africa:   http://www.deere.com/en_ZA/products/ag/combines/1450_combines.html

It's a matter of farm size, while the rest of the world is catching up, the majority of our farms have large total acreage with large fields, and big equipment is effecient. Then the economy of scale kicks in. You can make a good living on less profit per acres the more acres you have. So big farms can pay alot more cash rent and machinery costs than small farms. In other countries farms are still small, they are just getting away from subsistance faming, many have not been using tractors that long. Or the terrain only suits small farms. Or the government oppresses farmers. What ever the reason small equipment is what they can afford so that's what the companies sell them.