2026 Tractor Sales Data

[CloverKnollFarms]

Issue is that wages have not kept pace with inflation... especially in farming. So, prices adjusted for inflation, just prove the chasm has widened

 

[JRH02]

I don't think I will ever have any source of income stay ahead of inflation unless I work harder AND smarter.

 

[MarkMac]

There are a multitude of factors, most already mentioned. Covid stims helped saturate and temporarily swell a market that is/was shrinking.

Rural life is going extinct.

I ride my horse and people look at me with trepidation like I’m sitting astride a velociraptor. Today a co-worker stared at me wide-eyed when I mentioned welding something, “You can weld?”. Most all my rural neighbors have a landscaping service, even the ones with teenage children that should be mowing the grass and raking leaves.

I sometimes think I’m the last person on Earth who hand washes his own vehicles.

The irony is these people pay others to do all these services for them, and then pay again for a gym membership. I just fling my own hay bales and rake my own leaves, and stay in good shape moving around my property, with no need for a gym membership.

A tractor is a great force multiplier, and handy if you do stuff yourself… but if a fella hires out all the work he needs done then he probably doesn’t really need a tractor.

 

[JRH02]

There are a multitude of factors, most already mentioned. Covid stims helped saturate and temporarily swell a market that is/was shrinking.

Rural life is going extinct.

I ride my horse and people look at me with trepidation like I’m sitting astride a velociraptor. Today a co-worker stared at me wide-eyed when I mentioned welding something, “You can weld?”. Most all my rural neighbors have a landscaping service, even the ones with teenage children that should be mowing the grass and raking leaves.

I sometimes think I’m the last person on Earth who hand washes his own vehicles.

The irony is these people pay others to do all these services for them, and then pay again for a gym membership. I just fling my own hay bales and rake my own leaves, and stay in good shape moving around my property, with no need for a gym membership.

A tractor is a great force multiplier, and handy if you do stuff yourself… but if a fella hires out all the work he needs done then he probably doesn’t really need a tractor.

^^^ What an excellent few thoughts to add to this thread. ^^^

I have a similar challenge doing everything myself because if I hire within the trades it is obscenely expensive just to get them here and back to their starting point. And if I try to hire a day or project helper, if I can find someone, I have to be with them the whole time or weird, stupid stuff begins to happen.

So I have invested in tools large and small to help me with the things I can't physically do myself.

If my old B7100 had a heart attack I'd be replacing it immediately. I'd be on the lookout for a pre-emissions Kubota in the same size range but I probably wouldn't find one so I'd likely buy new.