Ford never seemed committed to agriculture about when the 1000 series tractors came out. The little ones depended upon the good design of the 100 series which depended upon the n series. But anything bigger was hit and miss. They never ever were on anything other than tractors, the machinery was just repainted other stuff, and the combine deals they made were just disasters, perhaps the combines is what killed them down on the farm the most.
The transition from small farm 1970s to big farm 1990s was very hard on every segment of agriculture, a miserable 20 years, and it was pretty obvious Ford was not in it for the long haul early on. They ended up with great engines and pretty good tractors; but there were many missteps and an obvious lack of wanting to go forward in the ag market.
Case wasn't much different.
What surprised me was Ford and Case and IHC ended up under the same roof. You had three pretty good tractor designs and only one machinery line (oh, New Holand added a good hay machinery line, but Fiat already had their own so it was kinda doubled up anyhow) out of all that, seemed like a lot of overlap.
I wonder where it goes in this next farm depression? Will we have JD and then all the rest combined by Fiat or by the Agco emblem into one company of all the other brands but JD? That would have to get weeded down to single lines of new stuff. Will be interesting. Maybe not good, but interesting.
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