AGCO Takeover Trimble Agriculture

[Steevo]

Only just heard about this today - interesting development.

Scary to read that AGCO is "by far the smaller company in the deal, despite it having a more prominent public presence in the agricultural industry."

AGCO spends $2 billion on Trimble acquisition - Agriland.co.uk

There are two routes to acquiring technology, develop it in house or, as AGCO has chosen to do, buy it in through the purchase of expertise already

www.agriland.co.uk

 

[Matt77]

Be interesting to hear my Agco dealer now, last two tractors had Novtel fitted because it was "better" than Trimble

 

[Will Blackburn]

They will have to encrypt the CAN now to stop AgOpenGPS

 

[tr250]

Be interesting to hear my Agco dealer now, last two tractors had Novtel fitted because it was "better" than Trimble

Not to mention £1k at least cheaper

 

[Richard Smyth]

Be interesting to hear my Agco dealer now, last two tractors had Novtel fitted because it was "better" than Trimble

supposedly was better than Trimble but the latest Trimble receivers are on par with the novatel.

I still get Trimble receivers though as I can use the 20 minutes x fill when rtk drops out. Can’t do that with novatel.

 

[Chae1]

Interesting. Had noticed CNH dealers ditched Trimble.

 

[Richard Smyth]

Interesting. Had noticed CNH dealers ditched Trimble.

Cnh deal with Trimble been over for a fair while. Around the time they bought raven industries.

they do fit novatel receivers now although that started close to the time they bought raven.

they been trying to clear old stock of cnh branded Trimble gear here.

 

[DrDunc]

Agco accountants reckon they'll recoup the invested billions

Why, oh why don't farmers tell the big multinationals to shove their over priced electronics?

Agopengps autosteer, headland turn, and section control costs about a grand. Your own base station costs less than a front tyre. No subscription fees

Yet farmers in their thousands keep giving away tens of thousands, completely unnecessarily

 

[stevedave]

Great we've just had a new Claas system which uses trimble. So that will now be down the shitter once agco bean counter have finished screwing up a good system

 

[Farma Parma]

Be interesting to hear my Agco dealer now, last two tractors had Novtel fitted because it was "better" than Trimble

was told the same by massey dealer funny enough...