AGCO is a amazing brand but my grandfather wished they never quit making Oliver tractors

great job of explaining AGCO thank you for your hard work and research

That Massey Combine with the flag is so awesome

I really like this video. I buy almost all Agco equipment and have never regretted it. I grew up on Massey Ferguson tractors, still running them today. The Massey /Hesston large square baler is the best there is...

I consider you one of the top authorities on farm equipment. Thanks.

Awesome video on AGCO! I left farming in 1990 so this was mostly new news to me.

i love this video. im from Kansas and the Hesston AGCO plant is something we're proud of. My grandfather always had an affinity for Allis-Chalmers tractors and almost bought a brand new one as his first tractor in the 50s but was swayed by his dad to buy a used John Deere because it was a green farm (and still is under my cousin.) This history is so very neat.

I So appreciate you putting this together. Please explore it more as you suggest.

Thanks for all your great videos! I was curious about the AGCO history and this answered a lot of questions.

Thank you Mike. This was just an amazing video. I have often wondered about the history of AGCO and you connected 100's of dots. Awesome!!!

Outstanding! Excellent information, THANKS!!

Well that was just *AWESOME* !! Thanks for sharing! It really is quite the story and I'm glad you're telling it as it was! Thanks for the video!

Great video, Agco has a lot of good products and dealers, with the Gleaner combine being it's best product.

Really enjoyed the history of the company. Thanks bigtractorpower!

Massey Ferguson was very popular in Canada. We used Massey Ferguson on our farm. I still remember the controversy here in Canada when AGCO bought Massey Ferguson. It was big news here. Since then, pretty much every farmer switched to CASE. Today, John Deere is the leader in sales.

that was beautiful! thanks for making this video!

Brilliant video ! Great history and nostalgia .

Great video! I can't wait for the next segment on AGCO history.

It's so cool to learn about such a great brand thanks for the video!

Love these videos with history incorporated into them makes them alot more interesting

Great video. The History of AGCO is so impressive.

Another great video! Thank you BTP....

Well done! Very informative and the video content supported the storyline so well.

Thanks for another impressive video! An excellent Tractor and Harvester! I know lot of information to your video's! I really appreciate to making this video's! Many thanks for making this video's!. Have a wonderful weekend!

Cracking video. Very informative. First tractor I ever drove was my grandfathers T20. There's such a resurgence in the vintage stuff especially here in Ireland.

Great video looking forward to seeing more about Agco

Very good summary of all the brands that form the history of AGCO.

Man what a great video must have taken a long time to recerch once again thank you 👍👍👍

Great video- nice to see all the brands they acquired

Great video!! This is very informative..

Awesome video BTP ,you really know your stuff.

Enjoyed Agco corp history video. So many great brands, with it's own past. Richly told 🚜👍

I could listen to these history videos all day

Thank you for this video

I wish agco would make a updated video..... Thanks for making this i really enjoyed it.

Love the video.

Great educational video!! 👍👍

Great video, well done!

Wow I did not know all of that history. Great video

Very informative video about the history of Adco think you very much

Brilliant video as always thank you really interesting video 👍👍👍👍

I love these videos!

I love AgCo tractors.

This was informative. I did not know AGCO had so many brands. You should do this type of videos for the other farm tractor brands.

Really great and interseting video.

I love this stuff great job

Always watching!!

Very interesting video guys keep up the good work

Awesome video! The first tractors I drove were my grandfather’s Allis Chalmers D17 and 185.

One of your best videos

Great video 🙂 love it 👍🏻

Our youth should really learn where our food supply comes from. Before I retired in 2010 some kids would pass me on my 46 Farmall B and didn't know what a tractor was.

Crazy, I am 50, and I remember Gleaner, Case , JD, Oliver , Case and IH all by themselves. And our neighbor was the “Weird farmer” with White products.

thank you so much for posting this video. the history portion answered many questions. agco’s multibrand approach is extremely interesting to me. i work in an industry where an acquired firm’s brand name rarely survives (e.g. Sikorsky helicopter name survived.).

Great Video J !

Great video!

There were a few brands that I did not realize AGCO owns. Great video!!

Awesome video. i love history. Where i live in central Minnesota Agco isn't as popular. it was great hearing the history behind the company. i am looking forward to future videos about their products. thanks for doing this.

Whoah, what was that crazy implement @3:31 ? Great video as always BTP!

Super la machine j'adore👍👍👌👌

Very informative and interesting, I like the combine with the flag, it looks awesome

Great video. Harry Ferguson was from Northern Ireland like me and we have one of his first tractors ever built in our family. A 1938 Ferguson Brown.

nice action, nice colors, thumb up, greetings from Slovakia :)

Very good research 👍

Great video. Would be cool if you are going on with the history of AGCO.

AGCO´s Origins & Histoy 👍👌

I like the cameo by the Claas Combine. I wish you showed off more Valtra tractors. They are the best looking tractor on the planet.

Now I understand why some brands haven’t merged because sales recognition. For AGCO to grow it need to build better dealerships that can train farmers in handling n understanding of their products. Some AGCO products have high cost to their spare parts compared to CNH. I do see GSI playing bigger part maybe other farm related products been brought by AGCO for total farm solution. Great vid BTP👍👍

Man I wish Ethan still had his channel up and running. The kid was extremely knowledgeable in everything he did. Another get video!

Loved the video! Could you do a similar video on Ford/New Holland?

very nice vid

Class! IS! THE! BEST!

AGCO’s relationship with TAFE is worth exploring, especially the relative financial strength of both companies. Also, in your summary of the video there are hay mowers shown which are a result of buying and re-branding Fella hay products of Germany. Later on they also buy the Lely grass machinery business as Lely exits to concentrate on robotic dairy cow management. Lely included the Welger round baler business which at last has brought some stability to AGCO’s implement businesses, at least in Europe. Let’s not forget Valtra either, bought partly to get back into the engine manufacturing business but also adding another exclusive line of tractors which are gaining market share steadily.

Also the great SISU engines from Valtra in Finland. Used in most AGCO machines.

Our family's Massey Ferguson 1100 and Super 90 have served us well.

Thank you BTP. I like the history side of tractor companys.

MY dad said that John Deere and International Harvester after WW2 took their war profits and used it to floorplan their dealerships... they built a great dealership network...My grandfather, dad and my uncles opened an BF Avery dealership in 1949 and with the acquisition of BFAvery by Minneapolis Moline became a MM dealer but they closed the dealership in mid to late 50,'s primarily because when they ordered a tractor they had to pay for it in 30 days. Whereas John Deere and IHC could hold a unit for 6 months before having to pay. So they could stock more units.. plus had time to make sales.. John Deere and IHC were building a loyal dedicated clientele of Customers... both with franchisees and end users

Interesting video. I was growing up when all this started back in the day. What is interesting is looking at just AGCO, in general the only info easily found is simply the aquisitions of the bigger companies mostly starting when the actual AGCo name came to be. But there were SO MANY little companies, a lot of them fairly specialized, that were consolidated either by AGCo, or were picked up by other companies right before AGCo bought them that the list of ALL the companies under the AGCo nameplate is simply immense. I remember in the late 80's reading about companies that produced only one or two items, sometimes just cultivators or spring tooth drags etc getting aquired by Hesston, or New Idea, or White, etc. Then AGCo came by and bought up those companies. It is really hard to find a good list nowdays, a google search of any of the "AGCo brands" doesn;t really show their history very well, mostly just links to stuff about AGCo itself. I suppose that's a product of our modern global economy and merged up megacorps. But it is a shame in a way that all that "little guy" history is so hard to find. Sort of like how AGCo doesn't seem to like talking about how they own the Oliver nameplate, or MM. Those old companies get treated as irrelevant in today's market, and that's really too bad. But as the saying goes, nothing stays the same.

I did not know that AGCO had that many companies under their belt. This was interesting.

AGCO IS MY 2ND FAVORITE. JOHN DEERE IS MY 1ST FAVORITE AGRICULTURE COMPANY.

First tractors I drove were a MM 670 Super and a 2-105 White. The MM670 is still on the farm today.

I love my allises and gleaners

I really miss New Idea and White equipment and tractors. I know White still makes planters, but it's just a matter of time before they're gone too.

Awesome! Love all the old videos. I wonder which ag-manufacturer buyout Ratcliffe was referencing when he was talking about the brand consolidation - Case buying IH, or Fiat buying Ford?

Great video ! Very informative. It's interesting to see how it all came together. The late 70's early 80's were tough on a lot of North American tractor companies. Talking about brand recognition, I see a tractor line called McCormick which to me is a old brand. My Dad had a 1968 McCormick International 434 tractor that we used on our dairy farm up until the 80's.

I'm a fan of AGCO and their brands, so I always enjoy these videos highlighting their history along with the "then versus now" comparison. There does seem to be a fair bit of disdain due to their phase-out of the Allis name and the orange paint, but their quality has continually improved and I feel they made a strategically smart decision by focusing on Massey Ferguson. MF seems to have a global presence that dwarfs the presence Allis-Chalmers ever had (globally; too many people get hung up on the North American market only), and they had so many brands under their belt that consolidation was badly needed. They have a smart portfolio in NA now with Massey (full line, consumer and prosumer brand), Challenger (commercial use brand), and Fendt (the "Cadillac"). You still see some co-branding, such as Hesston by Massey Ferguson, which works well, in my opinion. And in the last few years they have really been pushing the envelope with features and technology, which I sincerely hope will gain them some serious market share. Their only weakness in my eyes are the dealer network in NA; that is the biggest issue I see, and one where John Deere really dominates the market. Just my two cents; great video!

The part where you talked about the Gleaner combine showing an S 97 ..do you have any previous footage of that machine?..I might of missed it..that’s a nice machine!!!

Best tractors on the market today.

My uncle is proud to run massey Ferguson planter, baler, and self propelled discbine

I love how AGCO talked about being proud of the fact that their business model was to buy the brands but keep the branding. It wasn't too long after that video was made that they got rid of the Allis and White brands. Now it's all mostly MF.

I believe the sunshine McKay combine harvester made in Australia built the first self propelled combine but I could be wrong

Great video. As I was watching, I thought about how awesome it would be if Fiat saw how successful this strategy was and followed suit by making IH and Case as stand alone brands again. A highly unlikely pipe dream, I know.

I remember white tractors when I was a kid back in the 1970S 😊😊 now 2 day U do good 2 see a white tractor 🚜 😮 massey ferguson 1 ST started making tractors in 1958 😊😊🎉🎉❤😊 OMG 9 2O 2O23

I found this very interesting I am a 86 year old going back to the horse, then my father buying a new ACWC in 1937 . At 4 years old I was sitting on the tool box where ever My father went. after 4 years in the Airforce during the Korean war, I came home to farm with my father, buying the last 2 clynd.JD 630. But the Lord had other things for me. so spent flying for and starting flight programs for a mission. But as the old saying goes," you can take the boy of the farm but can't take the farm out of the farm". This was the very best story of how many of these companies merged together, as i well remember most of these when they were first showing up on the farm market. **************for this presentation. Jim ferguson

Nice history lesson! That's the only way a lot of those brands were going to survive at that time.

Nice video now make a follow up on how many brands they have got rid of and how many dealers they have done away with. when they took over almost every company show here had a dealer with in 25 miles of where i live now the one agco dealer that is even close is 70 plus miles away. Anyone else seen this?

I agree with the statement that the dealer creates a client base and people stick with the dealer not the equipment. Our massey dealer honers the warranty, never a fight🤘🤘

3:48 my dad works with all sorts of unis, they are pretty cool and odd machines in my oppinion.

on the 1st of january tracked tractors have become legal to drive on danish roads. i cant wait to se them in the wild instead of only seeing them at farm shows

I've only have 15 acres but I have a wd45 and a round baler. I luv it like it's directly of the line