This comment might be the source of some of the confusion. Thread title says "utility", as does the way you have described your intended use. Row crop tractors of the day could be used to some extent for this use, but that was not what they were built for. Case in point would be my recent attempt to use a neighbor's Massey 1100 as a loader tractor. It has a loader on it, but it didn't work well for the way I was using it, which was a lot of forward and back movement in tight quarters. It was made to hook on to a piece of tillage equipment, point it to the horizon, open the throttle and let it eat.
I think you will find you already have one of the best made in the form of that 3020. In the battle of tradeoffs and features, it will win out most of the time against most other models of the era.
But since you asked, and want to stick with row crops and AGCO orphans, I'll also suggest you add an Oliver 1650 or 1655 or White 2-70 (same tractor, different color paint) and Minny Moline M-670 to your list. Or a Ford 6700, of which very few were built, but was the close twin to the legendary Ford 7700, being almost identical in every way, except lacking the turbo charger.
None of these are going to be as handy as the 3020 but were contemporaries of the time.
BTW, on your comment about Fords being popular in the Midwest, I would tend to agree with you. Except back then, nearly 100% of the tractors used by the highway dept. to groom road banks were Fords. I grew up in a farming community and we had nearly all the major brands. Probably had 5 or 6 brands to choose from including what we were told was one of, if not THE biggest Massey dealer in the US, as measured by sales volume. Today......only 2 remain. JD and NH, which in a former life was Ford, and which I now remember has been in the same location for as long as I've been alive, and I was born in the 50's.
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