AgribusinessThe Association of Equipment Manufacturers reports US farm tractor sales down 16.4 percent and combine sales down 10.9 percent in September from a year earlier, with every tractor size class lower and Canada's combine sales down 37.6 percent.
AgrotechSTEYR has launched the Spezial F CVT, a 100 to 120 hp range of compact tractors for orchards, hop gardens and other perennial crops that can carry auto-guidance, automated headland turns and a digital farm management link.
AgrotechThe new models, from 19.3 to 23.9 gross horsepower, carry heavier loaders, side-by-side pedals and 54- or 60-inch mower decks, and reach US and Canadian dealers early next year.
Dealers registered 76,906 tractors in India in September 2026, up 13.75% on a year earlier but down 12.58% from August, as later festivals and patchy monsoon rain led farmers to put off purchases.
AgrotechSix models from 170 to 245hp pair AGCO Power's Core75 engine with a Dyna-VT CVT and will be the first tractors to leave the factory with PTx's FarmENGAGE operations software; deliveries start in spring 2027.
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AgribusinessAugust wholesales rose 6.5 percent but retail registrations only 0.8 percent; with El Niño rainfall at 85 percent of the long-period average, deficient kharif harvests could delay replacement buying.
Czech tractor maker Zetor says energy, labour and material costs make manufacturing in Brno uncompetitive; once current orders are finished, its sub-130hp tractors will be built in India and later China, with the new 5-series sourced from Turkey's Hattat, while headquarters and engineering stay in B
Farm tractor sales in the United States fell 8% year on year in August to 14,571 units and self-propelled combine sales dropped 4%, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers reported, with Canadian combine sales down more than 40%.
FTMTA executive director Michael Farrelly sees grass machinery selling well on the back of dairy, horsepower creeping up as labour gets scarce, and renewed interest in efficient four-cylinder tractors as fuel costs bite.
