It was never surprising as Henry Ford himself was the driving force behind his company selling farm equipment and that bug never caught on with his sons and the administrators that came after. The auto division was sickly in the 1980's but was well recovered by the 1990's so management so no further need to be involved with farm equipment. My opinion has been even during the 1960's farm equipment was something that Ford traditionally did and who was anybody to go against the legacy of old Henry himself but other than that I don't think too many top managers at Ford cared. Ford got big tractors wrong during the 1960's and a lot of it was due to attitude. Ford had a good thing going with the N series in the 1950's and the attitude was why tinker with success as it were. The same attitude prevailed during the 1960's with the near 100 horsepower market. The 8000 when it came out just never competed well here and seemed to appeal to the tightwad farmers. Ford did not help themselves when they contracted out implements from the late 1960's onward even though it helped their bottom line initially as it made them look like they were heading for the exits in terms of ag machinery.
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