OT-What they mean by "Orange is gone and so am I"

Two years after AGCO's big annoucement you are starting to see AGCO tractors showing up at other dealers lots around here.  I guess I first took note of it a few weeks back when on a trip to Lincoln, Nebraska, when I seen a couple of AGCO DT200 series tractors, one on a John Deere lot and the other on a New Holland lot.  Here are a few around here locally...

 

 

A couple of AGCO tractors on a Buyer/Seller's lot.

 

AGCO RT95 on a John Deere dealers lot in the area.

 

AGCO RT 115 and AGCO LT95A with AGCO loader on a New Holland dealers lot in the area.

 

Anybody else seeing the same thing?  Got any pics?

 

 

 

 

DougG wrote: Yeah , noticing more on the lots ,All other brand lots !!! most dealers I,ve talked to are afraid they wont even be able to give them a way ! None of them have faith in Agco to be a major player in the NA markets , or to support the new models with the electronic stuff ????  Supposedly the electronic stuff is things nobody else is using ???? Dont know much on that as an AC 180 OR 190XT dont have that on it !!! Who knows ?  Have been seeing more Challengers around though - [ wait i gotta puke ] !!!

Electronics are the future and are going to become more previlant in farm equipment, just like they have in every other part of modern life.  AGCO is not the only company using electronics on their equipment.  Take a look at the new JD 7R series.  It is more computer than tractor!  Absolutely amazing the amount of computing power on that tractor.

mostly see that the people that own them....are keeping them! some are coming off leases, some are priced high, even on other brands lots! lots of new jd's with all that electronics are catching on fire! all that i've seen burnt, are cab fires! hmmmmm......... 

Electronics are the future and are going to become more previlant in farm equipment, just like they have in every other part of modern life.  AGCO is not the only company using electronics on their equipment.  Take a look at the new JD 7R series.  It is more computer than tractor!  Absolutely amazing the amount of computing power on that tractor.

         WHAT ???   AAAAAAAAHHHHH Yeah , I mean the electronics the AGCO model tractors use , other dealers are afraid Agco wont be there for the electronic parts , supposedly different from MF and Challenger tractors ???                                                                                                                       

Edited by DougG - 25 Aug 2011 at 9:04pm

"the wave of the future" is not always a good thing! take for instance (off topic of farm equip) our communications dept had to spend like $80,000,000.00 to get the newest computerised equipment to keep the pubic and law enforcement and fire depts safer! each portable radio costs over $5000. ea. but to keep going, had to buy 2 portables for "just in case" one malfuctions! well our dept has over 2000 radios, 1/2 of them are now broken, (quit working) and out of warranty! the computerized cad systems in communications are always breaking down or in need of updates very often! they can't keep the computerized radios and terminals in the vehicles because they are plagued from vibrations! we have 5 people working 24/7 keeping all this up and running! all this is only 2-10 years old as we have to keep replacing the junk computerized stuff! oh...yeah...back in 1971 when i started, we had what they called "low band" radio's, we could talk on them to the cars for almost 50-75 miles! this new stuff will get us about 10-12 miles. like i said before...a diesel engine does not require a computer to make it run...and run well! look how much cheaper everything would be without computers in farm equipment and your trucks and cars! safe to say $10,000-$20,000 on tractors and combines?  i like my home cheapy computer for chatting with ya'll, and for looking up things and places, but it is a quite expensive deck of cards! pffft!

Was an AGCO at the CaseIH dealer in Kasson a couple months ago. I worked there for 4 years and had only an old 190 and an 8070 with bad PS back in late 90's and none since until this AGCO.

Here's how it's going to work real soon.

and that price didn't include all the towers they had to build! (i won't get into a pissing match about this, ya'll get the point)

I think ILGLEANER was a little gone before  Orange    LMAO !!! Maybe he is all together gone now !!!!!!

Yes, this is Peggy...

I don't think anyone is all that excited about having their farm equipment built in China, no matter the color of the paint. I haven't read many positive comments on the Deere planter parts with "China" stamped or cast into them.

i thought we just recently had a thread that stated agco was bringing big tractor production back stateside into minnesota

I work in the automotive aftermarket & electronics & computers are what all the manufactuers are using. I have lots of calls for PCM's and electronic solenoids and so forth finding them for cars is hard enough. Some PCM's we send in to have rebuilt & need just about every piece of info on the vehicle. I dont know how hard it will be to find electronics for tractors in the future but I dont think it will be to easy for any brand.