If you ask total market share, it is poor. A little less than 20%. If you look regionally it is quite respectful. Gleaner sells almost NO combines in the east, southeast and deep south- no dealers. This is a big chunk of the market. I can't do the math but it means some dealers are doing a great job in places where there are dealers. The addition of a Rice_Soybean Gleaner and dealers to sell them would add a chunk, but it will be slow coming. There are NO plans of a CAT engine in any Gleaner sold to Gleaner dealers. IF Cat wanted a yellow Gleaner - a GlellowIJ GlexionIJ Gleaxner IJ GleanerionIJ GleanercatIJ - it would have a Cat eng. and be sold through the Cat dealers. No, Agco dealers will not have exclusive anything. Cat will still sell Cat MT's. They will also have what ever Cat wants to buy from AGCO and paint yellow or 'after futher review' the Cat dealers may choose to add an AGCO contract of White-NewIdea - Fendt- Hesston or what ever. This is what Mr. Ratliff meant by "incremental sales volume". Everyone seems to miss the main point here. Cat is getting IN the AG business... I havn't made my mind up about this yet . Time will tell.
