AGCO Corporation manufactures and distributes agricultural equipment and related replacement parts worldwide. It offers high horsepower tractors for row crop production, soil cultivation, planting, land leveling, seeding, and commercial hay operations; utility tractors for small- and medium-sized farms, as well as for dairy, livestock, orchards, and vineyards; and compact tractors for small farms, specialty agricultural industries, landscaping, equestrian, and residential uses. The company also provides grain storage bins and related drying and handling equipment systems; seed-processing systems; swine and poultry feed storage and delivery; ventilation and watering systems; and egg production systems and broiler production equipment. In addition, it offers round and rectangular balers, loader wagons, self-propelled windrowers, forage harvesters, disc mowers, spreaders, rakes, tedders, and mower conditioners for harvesting and packaging vegetative feeds used in the beef cattle, dairy, horse, and renewable fuel industries.
KHD had purchased portions of the Allis-Chalmers agricultural equipment business five years earlier. In March , AGCO purchased the Hesston Corporation [4] [5] gaining hay and forage equipment as well as technologies such as the grain auger used to unload grain quickly from combines , invented in by Lyle Yost. In , they purchased McConnell Tractors, [4] manufacturer of the large articulated Massey Ferguson tractors.
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