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Big farm tractor sales down last year

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) says total farm tractor sales were up 3 percent last year at 201,770 units. But the increase was in two-wheel-drive tractors with less than 100 horsepower.

There were more than 100,600 two-wheel-drives under 40 horsepower sold up nearly 9 percent from the previous year. Sales of two-wheel-drives with 40 to 99 horsepower increased more than 7 percent to 57,000 units.

Two-wheel-drives with more than 100 horsepower totaled 37,000 sales down more than 13.5 percent from 2013.

Four-wheel-drive tractor sales were down 26 percent from the previous year at 6,900 units. Four-wheel-drive sales in December were down 49 percent compared to December of 2013.

Self-propelled combine sales totaled 10,753 machines in 2014 down nearly 26 percent from the previous year. December combine sales dropped 40 percent from December of 2013.

Read the full report from AEM here: