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This comment is so funny it's almost satire. Look at John deere to see how fun tractors can be.
by rowanG077 3y ago
This comment is so funny it's almost satire. Look at John deere to see how fun tractors can be.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Look at John deere to see how fun tractors can be Does John Deere have a global monopoly? Resisting modernisation because John Deere are dicks is textbook misdirection. (Out of the top-ten selling tractors in India, John Deere has one—the 5510–on the list.)
- rowanG077 3y agoIt fortunately doesn't have a monopoly because Indias farmers are smarter then US farmers. That is independent of the fact that John Deere equipment is basically the highest tech you can get.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> doesn't have a monopoly because Indias farmers are smarter then US farmers Still totally wrong. John Deere is a top-selling tractor, but it’s far from a monopoly. It’s optimised for large farms; with its technological supremacy it lets high labour cost American farms beat emerging-market farms on cost per calorie. Deere & Company has a power imbalance with small farmers, but nobody is forced to buy their tractors.
- fatfingerd 3y agoSounds like you are saying that after a liberalization in attitudes toward modern farming, most Indian farmers wouldn't have to choose John Deere, only the Indian mega farms that would under cut them on price per calorie would have to?
- cpursley 3y agoIronically, there’s some Indian tractor brands that sell well in the US (and are quite good bang for the buck).