This is some speculation, but I get the vibe that Kubota is going to take a huge chunk of the market this year. Exchange rates with other countries are impacting the price of tractors alot. The exchange between us and Japan has been very close, others places we are way down. This is killing those companies that import from india, turkey, mexico, etc. I think some companies are not pricing as aggressivly and holding their inventory low to try and ride out the steel and exchange rate problems they are facing. Those making equipment domesticly and those who export are doing much better. Kubota has shown no signs of this to us, yet most every other company has.
Just speculation, only so much of what happens behind closed doors trickels down.