Wen, there are no JD/NH dealers that I am aware of in my area, there are lots of JD and Kubota, NH and Kubota, but no NH and JD. By far, here in the central valley of California, Kubota dealers outnumber the others by a substantial amount. Just in the Sacramento area there must be about 10 Kubota/NH or Kubota/JD dealers. The vineyards in Napa, Calistoga, and throughout the rest of the north state use predominatly Kubota. Its one of the ways they sell them out here. The grape growers use them for one harvest season and then the dealers sell them as used. Most of them will have less then 100 hrs on them. As far as backhoes, the industrial backhoes, JD is king by a mile. It is so dominant, you see far more then Case, NH and Cat combined. The rental yards use JD 310's and 710's almost exclusively. Belleyscrapers are all CAT, graders are predominatly CAT, excavators are CAT and Komatsu, dozers are mostly CAT up to D11's and some Komatsu equivalent, the smaller ones like the D4's are both CAT and JD. There is so much construction going on here that on one stretch of highway, not to far from my home, I'll bet there are 40 D9's and D10's with kelley rippers, (the soil is so hard that the ripper gets in the ground about 6" per pass.) 50 excavators, and hundreds of backhoes. It is a sea of yellow.
Farmers go with everything, Case, old Masseys and International, CAT, NH, JD, and Kubota. The farms out here are big. Lots of 8 tire JD's and Case for pulling. The fruit and nut orchards seem to have NH/Fords around. Rat...