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North American tractor sales good in October

U.S. tractor sales showing continued strength through October. The monthly report from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) shows 20,269 tractors were sold in the country in October, up 29.3 percent from October of last year. Two-wheel-drives made up most of the sales with 19,087 sold. Of those, 8,532 were under 40 horsepower, 5,735 were 40 to 100 horsepower and 4,820 were over 100 horsepower. There were 1,182 four-wheel-drive tractors sold in October.

Year-to-date tractor sales through October total 157,058, up 10 percent from a year ago. 151,380 of those are two-wheel-drives and more than half of those are under 40 horsepower. Four-wheel-drive sales year-to-date are up 12 percent on the year at 5,678 units.

Self-propelled combine sales were up 45 percent in October at 1,768 units. Year-to-date self-propelled combine sales in the U.S. are 7/10ths of a percent behind last year at 8,383 machines.

Canadian tractor sales in October totaled 3,683 up 5 percent from October of 2011. 3,366 of the units sold were two-wheel-drive. October self-propelled combine sales totaled 553, up 27 percent from a year ago.

Year-to-date tractor sales are up 3 percent in Canada at 21,323 while self-propelled combine sales are down a half-percent at 2,496 units.

Read the AEM October U.S. report here:

Read the AEM October Canadian report here: