Gleaner phase out

Heard today AGCO was phasing out Gleaner? Is this true?

I read in either TAC or the OAN that Gleaner was here to  stay. Gleaner accounts for most of AGCO's sales, and farmer opposition has been too great to drop them. 

In the last issue of Old Allis News they had an interview with John Keller from Agco/Gleaner and he assured that gleaner was here to stay and they have a ten year plan for it. I don't think gleaner is going anywhere.

My info came from a friend who runs Gleaners . 10 years is not a very long time . Y'all seen the Fendt combines ?

I know Agco has done stupid things like gettting rid of orange tractors BUT, they have poured a ton of money into the Gleaner combine. More than they did to Agco tractors. I wouldn't think they would throw that away after investing so much. My feeling is the Ideal machine will phase out the current Massey and challenger axials and they will offer the Gleaner and the Ideal/Massey/fendt. But again they have done more stupid things in the past.

LeonR2013 wrote: However, the biggest lies are told just before a big change is made in big business. How's that for big?

JimIA Your last sentence says it all!

I hope that they never get rid of Gleaner, but I am pretty sure that it's out of my control. AS far as companies blowing smoke up people's asses; well that's been happening for years. A former boss of mine said that in 1959, he was talking with a John Deere rep at a farm show. This rep was talking up one of their old two lung tractors, and said that John Deere had no intention of ever building a tractor with a four cylinder engine. That two cylinder was just that good. Well, I guess they changed their minds, and developed that four cylinder one hell of a hurry, because it came out in 1960. Darrel

Such uncertain talk of Gleaners demise sure doesn't help its future. Wouldn't it be smart of AGCO to make a public statement that their was no truth in that rumor at all & fully embrace the Gleaner future ? The fact that they won't has to make a person wonder. So much for market share.

Remember the 100 Gleaner sales to China? No to worry about the Gleaner. If AGCO won't make them, the Chinese will. 

Been thinking of this post a lot in the last few days. IF, IF they were going to drop our Gleaner from the line, what would AGCO do with the Heston factory? It is to new to let it go unused. To me it would be shooting yourself in the foot not from the top down, but from the bottom upward. They would have to go out of your way to loose money. 

As memory serves and while people that now own Massey's or CNH tractors will attest they swear if Allis were put back into service using AC parts styles and not something bought from somebody else repainted orange or relabeled AGCO they would be buying them. Deere Had and currently Has the majority sales but that is declining as CNH takes a lot of those sales price wise. They are all the same tractor save color or plastic parts Case, NH, Massey, even the Deeres carry resemblance to them and yet each has a steady following in the US but they are all the same same only difference is a little control position and color.

Before the demise years, Allis had the innovations, had the quality to stand for DECADES, had the ability to drive markets for their product with Deere, MM, Massey and Ford following along steady behind. They kill off Gleaner they may as well do as Allis and sell the entire shebang as they will push the rest of us to CHOKE SPUTTER, Deere, as they have the dealer service numbers the others do not.