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Everybody does that. Bring in the machine or what ever and will add a little part just to get it to say "Made In Canada" or "Made In America". Alot of companys do that. It's a sad way of doing things. Have a good day. AGCOfan(Nathan Korpan)

I too was surprised to see that the Omaha plant was just a pre delivery facility.Engines are shipped fom USA to Europe for assembly on to combines then shipped back to Omaha for testing before shipment to customer. They indicate that they are gradually adding more parts and sub-assemblies as sub-contractors are approved. I guess the future of this combine is not it's harvesting efficiency but it's cost. So far it can't compete.My 2 cw. I don't think the laser header height control is practical either. It's certainly not cost effective

Maybe we should all be happy this Cat along with the New Holland Tx and Cx are made and engineered in Europe! If we didn't have these combines to compare our flimsey North American built panty weights to, then maybe we would be replacing elevator bottoms, feaderhouse house bottoms, cylinder bars, concaves at 250 hrs, instead of the 600 to 700 hrs keeping up to North American combine standards. These European combines are built with a minimum 40% engineering factor built into every machine where every component is 40% heavier than necessary. This is what makes these machines perform and last the way they do. You can't get any flywheel momentum to hammer a green slug through, if your components are made of tin. If our North American Engineers would add a little iron substance to the components and a little less tin, what a difference it would make. I hate to spend $300,000.00 for a combine and start rebuilding it after 600 or 700 hrs.

The laser is not for the header height. The laser is to steer the combine while harvesting wheat. That's why it's called AUTOPIlOT.

Sorry, to hear you being disappointed. But if you think about it a little, you might figure it out yourself that it had to be that way. As the number of CAT combines will increase, more manufacturing will be done in Omaha. But it all takes time. And especially Caterpillar does not like to get in a hurry as you can tell on all their other products. Claas is very similar. By the way, it still says "Made in Germany" on our new combines, too.

Rome was not built in a day, I think the plant in Omaha is a very impressive start to something big.

Agco built there new combine plant in a year and there products quality improved the first year. I guess you can do that when there is only 25% of the moving parts a cat has. Why cant Cat do thatIJIJIJIJIJIJ

I don't think it matters where they are made a little competition in these markets is needed. Most of the large companies are international anyway. I think companies like Monsanto and some of the seed companies are hurting farmers more by being down in South America buying up land and selling their products for less than what they sell to us. These are American companies. I wish the Germans would start a company and sell some seeds and fertilizer to us American farmers.

They already do, Great lakes Hibreds seed company, lima (spIJ) Grain

The plant was already there, they just added on and the plant they moved from was a dump so it was inevitable that product quality would improve. As far as moving parts, I agree Gleaner is more simple. Cat has a lot more features though than a Gleaner which would explain the extra moving parts. I think they are both good combines though!!