TRADITIONALLY, American farmers put fluid in the tires because they need it for traction, plain and simple. With 2WD tractors, the only way to get the power to the ground is WEIGHT. Duals were practically unheard of prior to the 1960's, and really only came into wide use in the 1970's.
The whole deal with 3pt and draft just doesn't work all that well on American ground for some reason.
You can't get much more "European" than a Ford N-series with a 2-bottom 3pt hitch plow. Sure they work fine in some ground, but most places, an unballasted N-series will just sit on top and spin its wheels the moment you drop the plow in the ground.
Maybe European ground is mellower, and/or more consistent? Here you go from cobblestones to clay to sandy loam all in the length of the tractor sometimes. If you depend on the plow draft for traction, you sit on top and spin your wheels.
That's changing, though. You can't hardly get a tractor these days without 4WD. Now we're getting those wide European style tires too, and if not those, the tractors are dualed all the way around.
A lot of the "need" for ballasting on modern tractors in America these days is due to people clinging to old ideas. Just like going from horse farming to tractor farming, or going from archaic tractors to modern tractors, this will require a jump to the next generation of farmers to be widely accepted.
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