5 Tractors American Farmers Swear By — And the 3 That'll Bankrupt You

00:00 Intro: $155 Thousand 01:48 Why This List Matters 04:20 #1 John Deere 4020 07:23 #2 International Harvester 1066 09:49 #3 John Deere 4440 & 4455 13:22 #4 Case IH Magnum 7100 & #5 Kubota 18:23 The 3 That'll Bankrupt You: DEF-Era Magnum & T8 22:43 Deere 8R Repair Lock & the $1 Million 4WD 28:20 The Honest Exception 30:39 The Number: $9 Why would a 46-year-old John Deere 4440 with no screen and no software sell for $155 thousand at a farm auction in Illinois, while sales of brand-new four-wheel-drive tractors fall off a cliff? Something is upside down in the American tractor market, and in this video I show you exactly what. I break down the 5 tractors American farmers genuinely swear by — the John Deere 4020, the International Harvester 1066, the Deere 4440 and 4455, the Case IH Magnum 7100 series and Kubota's L and M series — using real auction records, survey data and recall history. Then I go through the 3 that can bleed an operation dry: the Tier 4 Final DEF-era tractors, the dealer-only repair lock on late-model Deere 8Rs, and the $1.2 million 4WD that only makes sense if your acres can carry the payment in a bad year. I finish with the honest exception, where the data pushes back on my own title, and with the smallest number in the whole video: what 30 years did to the average auction price of a John Deere 4455. Sources include Machinery Pete / Greg Peterson auction data, AgWeb, Sandhills Global, AEM, the EPA, the FTC and DTN. I don't take money from any dealer or manufacturer — subscribe for straight talk on American iron. #tractors #johndeere #caseih #kubota #farmequipment #righttorepair