Posted by JK-NY on November 14, 2019 at 05:11:28 from (174.220.22.214):
In Reply to: Brand loyalty posted by JohnV2000 on November 14, 2019 at 03:23:19:
This is a good topic for a friendly discussion. I believe that when farmers started to switch from horses to tractors a local dealer would have a lot to do with their choices. Also if a neighbor bought a certain brand and was satisfied that might influence them. Then often they would be brand loyal unless they had bad luck with either a machine or the dealer and then they would be likely to try something different. I have heard a few stories from back then where some one had a falling out with their dealer and then tried a different brand. In my local area the prevailing brands were Deere Ford Farmall and Oliver mainly due to local dealers with very little MM, Case AC and MH/MF mostly due to no nearby dealers except for a small Case dealer 12-15 miles away who did have a small customer base near him. Certain tractor/ implement brands/ models were very popular with certain types of farming and that also was a factor. For example when there were a lot of smaller vegetable growers ( around here they used to be called “truck farmers “) Farmall Cub,A and C tractors were very popular with them for their cultivating abilities. Northwest and East of Syracuse NY as well as right in part of what is now the East part of Syracuse were mucklands and on the muck AC model G tractors and Cletrac crawlers were popular with the vegetable growers on the muck who grew a lot of onions potatoes and lettuce. The main type of farming around here back then was small dairy farms and New Holland hay and forage equipment was very popular and a NH dealer sometimes got tractor customers by selling them NH equipment.
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