How Foreign Companies Quietly Bought Every American Tractor Brand

How Foreign Companies Quietly Bought Every American Tractor Brand The American tractor industry was not defeated. It was purchased — methodically, brand by brand, during decades when American agriculture was still expanding. The combines were still running. The dealer lots were still full. The factories were still producing machines that farmers had trusted through dust and drought and depression. None of that changed the arithmetic. Foreign capital moved quietly through the industry the way water moves through cracked stone — not dramatically, not suddenly, but with a patience that required no announcement. By the time most people noticed, the names were still there. The ownership was not.