August 2025: TRACTOR and COMBINE HARVESTER SALES
Retail sales of agricultural equipment during August 2025 were as follows:
| Month – August | Year to date | |||||
| 2025 | 2024 | % | 2025 | 2024 | % | |
| Tractors | 700 | 572 | 22.4% | 5 015 | 4 071 | 23.2 % |
| Combine Harvesters | 5 | 5 | 0.0 % | 172 | 137 | 25.5 % |
August tractor sales of 700 units were 22% more than the 572 units sold in August last year. Year-to-date tractor sales are now approximately 23% up on last year. Five combine harvesters were sold in August, the same number as were sold in August last year.
On a year-to-date basis, combine harvester sales are now almost 26% up on last year.
Sentiment in the market remains positive and this is reflected in the good sales of tractors and combine harvesters currently being experienced. The recently released winter crop estimates indicate that production of all these crops, with the exception of barley, will be significantly higher than last year. Harvesting of summer crops was much delayed this year, but yields have, in the main, been good. Prospects for the forthcoming summer cropping season look favourable.
Current predictions are still that tractor sales will be between 10 and 15% more than last year. Combine harvester sales in 2025 also look as though they are going to be higher than last year.
Willie Human
Chairman: South African Agricultural Machinery Association
Contact: Willie Human (083) 954-7232 or Dr. Jim Rankin (011) 453-7249