</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I was surprised to see a population of 600,000 people in your county. )</font>
Although we still have an agricultural based economy, it is slowly moving to a split between tourism and manufacturing.
And that is fueling a housing boom, so, yeah the family farms will be on the way out; replaced by subdivisions or being bought up by the corporate farms. And that's a shame, we have a year-round growing season, but we are in the process (possibly by the next 50 years) of ruining Texas' best agricultural land.
This is a HUGE county. The population is rather concentrated. There are a bunch of several-hundred acre parcels here. That being said, there's almost no dealer here that does not stock several 150+HP tractors - any season. Here, a 50HP is considered "compact". We are also in the unique position here at the northern Mexico border where there are very large corporate farms. These farmers do most of their shopping on this side of the border as far as machinery and support goes.
Anyway, enough about this sinking ship, I think the McCormicks would sell well here, but, like I said, the dealers need to invest in the line so the buyers can try them out on the farm. I understand that they are sold through Vermeer dealers. We have one here, but, it isn't a very active business.
