Confused

Binder-Man

In 1912, Deere & Company began selling a tractor made by another company and in 1914, Joseph Dain was asked to determine the feasibility of building a light tractor capable of pulling a 3-bottom plow to be sold for $700.

...Despite the quality and usefulness demonstrated in the AWD tractor, its list price of $1,500 was still considered too high to be practical.

...Then, the company purchased the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company in Waterloo, Iowa, where the lower-priced Waterloo Boy Kerosene Burning Tractor could be built side-by-side with the AWD tractor. The Waterloo Boy tractor quickly became the company's workhorse.

This stuff's been goin' on long as there's been tractors.

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When Case & New Holland merged, the European Union required they sell the Doncaster, England plant along with the European production & engineering rights to several tractors (50-100hp C, CX, MXC, and MX Magnum). Argo of Spain purchased these assests, and later also bought the St. Dizier transmission plant.

So today's McCormick is no longer part of Case-IH/Case-New Holland but is a brand of a totally different company. But McCormick has the right to produce essentially the C, CX, MXC, and MX Magnum tractors as they were in 2000 -- I'm sure as time goes by you'll see more and more differentiation as engineering diverges from the common heritage.

Case-IH and McCormick are two different companies. Vermeer (USA) and McCormick Tractors (Doncaster, England) brought the McCormick name back to the US in early 2002. McCormick had been selling tractors worldwide beginning in early 2001. McCormick Ltd. was formed by Landini and its parent company, ARGO, after Case and New Holland merged in 1999. The McCormicks are made in Doncaster. From what I've read, the McCormicks have been well received and seem to be good products.

Recently, Case-IH (CNH) began producing small tractors up to 55 HP I believe with the Farmall name on them. Don't get to thinking that Farmall is emblazoned in 12" high letters on these new machines. The ones I saw had a rather small Farmall emblem on the front grill--definitely not first billing over the Case-IH label that I saw on the tractor. At least it's a start in reviving the Farmall name.

My opinion of the Farmall name revival was definitely not in step with the other opinions on this subject on the Red Power Forum.