Just for conversation sake AC did have a decent forage line if not great back in the day. They probably sold more than did the Oliver, MM, Ford, and Case dealers in these areas if the previously mentioned dealers did not have a hot short line such as Badger or Gehl which a fair number did not. Back in the 1960's AC was a big conglomerate of diverse interests (not unlike IH) but if it did not turn a certain profit level they lost interest in handling it. They should have paid attention in that for JD and IH having diversity in the product line kept customers walking in the dealership when tractor and combine sales were slow. That gave the dealer salesman a way to maintain contact with some farmers that did not care for on farm sales calls. Anyways, AC should have kept and developed the forage and other lines as a marketing effort. Even if they could not afford an assembly line for it they could have contracted with somebody and built it to their spec which if done right would have given a reason for the farmer to look past NH, Gehl, or whoever. The bean counter's short term objective kind of sold the whole organization down the drain. What good did it do as a lot of the former AC employees who most likely went to a crappier job when the downsizing hit in the 1980's. I'm a Cornell guy but sometimes these executives were nothing but educated fools.
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