here we go again!

http://www.agriculture.com/news/business/agco-to-buy-cnh-from-fiat_5-ar12666 Does this mean bye bye massey?

It shouldn't be allowed to happen, but I doubt that anyone has the spine to stop it. Everything is headed toward huge monopolies.

One more comment regarding this "distraction". It looks to me like Dickenhagen is putting this out is to distract the investment community from his mismanagement in NA. I find it nearly impossible for something this disastrous to happen with the major financial issues in Europe, and the fact that AGCO would need something like Billions in the teens to make this purchase, larger than all of their other acquistions combined! With the SA gravy train about to come to an end, NA sales tanking and Europe questionable, why not flood the media with new speculation?

That would be a site to see only the BELOVED MASSEY FERGESON and JOHN DEERE tractors in the fields ; of coarse CASE IH + NEW HOLLAND tractor production would cease ; EVERYONE wants a MF they just havent realized it yet ; Dikenhagen will let you know

Looks like used tractors for me the rest of my life. I thought New Holland was going to buy up AGCO when Dikenhagen relized that massey wasn't selling and he was going broke?

This afternoon soap opera needs a title. Any ideas?

Anybody registered on that site? Please leave a comment about the US tractor maker.

 As a owner of a NH tractor I hope this won't be the beginning of another screwed up mess like the whole Agco fiasco now.  The CNH customers should be very worried.

We'll, I'll be going to Deere if that happens.  I was hoping for a New Holland bi-directional but will wait to see what folds out here.  I can't see this happening though.

Here's Righenhagen saying it's not in the cards on October 15.

CHICAGO, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The chief executive of farm equipment maker Agco Corp AGCO.N said on Friday the company is focused on improving margins, not mergers and acquisitions, as the best way to grow and increase its profitability over the next five years.

Martin Richenhagen told Reuters in an interview that Agco might buy some smaller makers of niche farm products, such as sprayers or harvesters, in specific markets, such as Latin America, "to round out our product offering."

But he said big deals -- such as the one he admitted last summer he was open to doing -- were not in the cards.

But wait, that was almost two month before he changed his mind and is now interested in buy CNH again.  Can anything he says be trusted?

He might be worse than a politition is, can never keep a story straight.

who knows what the world is comming to..

Byron WC in SW Wi wrote: We'll, I'll be going to Deere if that happens.  I was hoping for a New Holland bi-directional but will wait to see what folds out here.  I can't see this happening though.

Another idea...

If it's like most companies, the employees are the last ones to find out anything.
The bidirectional sure doesn't look much like my old Versatile 160.
How is AGCO going to get govenment permission to purchase CNH when Fiat had to sell that European combine line to buy CNH.  Plus Fiat had to sell Hesston so they could buy New Holland.  If the deal did go down, there is a good chance Buher and Kubota would ramp up NA sales.  You can bet JD won't let this happen with out a fight, I suspect they have a lot of politicians in their pockets.  If nothing else, this could be very interesting to watch.