Agco orange color?

It's the first I've heard of it but I sure hope you are right!

Yes we need to step up to the plate people, i have made numerous calls, expressed my concern to many dealers also, we do farm with modern equipment, lots of Agco stuff, but have recently switched tractors to CNH because of the whole massey thing,  
at the very least you all need to call Agco answers, 1-877-525-4384, its just an out sourced answering service  for Agco but they do relay all messages to them, good or bad
Lets not give up on this.  make the call

The orange paint is encouraging, but the massey decals are a deal breaker. What part of "no massey ferguson" do they not understand? If we wanted massey decals on our farm machinery we would have been buying it that way all along. The corporation's name is AGCO. This feels like some kind of a coup d' etat, and it never should have happened. 

Edited by redline - 03 Sep 2010 at 5:30pm

620Doc wrote: My turn to stir this pot. What if we combine this new rumor with the news of a few weeks ago about Allis-Chalmers Energy being bought out and the possibility of aquiring the AC name and logo?

Stealing a line from the old movie "Paint Your Wagon" "Pardner, there is a shifty side to you that I am just starting to appreciate."

Edited by redline - 03 Sep 2010 at 7:39pm

   I have talked to several Agco company reps that say that they have Agco orange tractors back on their family farms, which tells me even though they might not have maybe grown up on orange, they talked dad ,brother or uncle into trying one.  They compare to the new Deeres as far as efficiency goes which is true,  the fuel savings and CVT on the new Agco's is top of the line, but they need to get them out on the farms and the MF badge probably was not the best way to go out and try and blow the doors off of JD.  I am real happy to see the progress on the new S series Gleaners, which is some good news from the Agco camp.  It just still hard to think after all these years of running orange of various "orange shades" and names that now suddenly MF is what we have left?????  Blows my mind.  Challenger will be lucky to survive the whole fiasco.

Owner of Isaacson Implement in MN told me the same thing about being able to order orange tractors when I was visiting their show spot and the Steele County Fair. I didn't think to ask about the AGCO name.

I'm getting a Vermeer baler because AGCO dropped orange.  I'm either getting a Vermeer disc mower or Kuhn because AGCO dropped the orange.  I'm getting a Kuhn tedder because AGCO dropped the orange.  I'm looking at trading in my AGCO tractor on a McCormick because AGCO dropped orange.  I got a Kuhn rake a couple of weeks ago because AGCO dropped orange.  I was in the AGCO dealer a week ago getting prices on New Holland hay equipment and the other salesman got a call from a guy and I heard him say stuff about orange being gone.  People ask about it and it makes a difference.  I told the salesman that if AGCO still made orange tractors this would be a no brainer that I'd be getting Hesston equipment.  Now I look around.

I think what this, and the whole Wall Street bailout thing, has done for me is that I give a huge positive to family owned companies now and throw that in when comparing equipment.  Both Vermeer and McCormick are family owned.

BTW - I said this for the last few years.  They need to make color an option for the AGCO tractor not the MF tractor.  Give customers a choice of Red/Orange/Oliver Green/MM Challenger yellow.  It's an AGCO tractor with different colors and stickers.   How hard could it be?  An MF with different colors is not acceptable to me.

BTW pat II - I was at Boone too but didn't even go by the AGCO spot.  I was within 50 feet of it but only just laughed at all the yellow Lexion combines that CAT dealers will sell in front of the yellow AGCO ones.  I didn't go by the AGCO site, in Boone, because the AGCO site at the Wisconsin farm show didn't have a single orange tractor in it so I didn't even talk to them.  It disgusts me too much.

This whole ordeal smacks of some over paid marketing 'genius' who decided, while sitting in her pajamas in a hotel getting a pedicure, somewhere in Hilton Head, that "brand consolidation" was the way to go to fight Deere.

Edited by clovis - 06 Sep 2010 at 12:55am

I have yet to hear a legitimate excuse as to why it was dropped in the first place.   Anything I've heard hasn't held any water.  Saying they could buy a MF orange just contradicts one of the things they said was the reason they dropped it.  I think their finding out the reality of the issue is that they are loosing a lot of business from this decision and they need every drop they can get in a down economic time.  It's moronic.

AC37, I think Farm Pro is currently marketing a line of 3 point implememts using the Minneapolis-Moline name and logo.

Allis Chalmers 37.  The only problem I see is that most of those lines you mention have been gone too long.  Even AC has been gone for 25 years.

TomYaz.  Good thinking.  It could be a game changer.

Great another proud classic name put on some cheap POS.

If Nathan was referring to the recent lawn mowers that were badged AC, there's validity to his comment. It looked to me like that is exactly what happened there. The thought was good, but it was not exactly a product that will stand the test of time. 

Edited by GBACBFan - 07 Sep 2010 at 5:29pm

OK guys, now what do you have against the new AC branded mowers built by Simplicity, 
I bought one last year, and there about as good as, or better than any brand of mower this day and age.  What brand are you guys running?