October 2025: TRACTOR and COMBINE HARVESTER SALES
Retail sales of agricultural equipment during October 2025 were as follows:
| Month – October | Year to date | |||||
| 2025 | 2024 | % | 2025 | 2024 | % | |
| Tractors | 857 | 765 | 12.0% | 6 630 | 5 496 | 20.6 % |
| Combine Harvesters | 17 | 28 | -39.3 % | 197 | 182 | 8.2 % |
October tractor sales of 857 units were almost 12% more than the 765 units sold in October last year. Year-to-date tractor sales are now almost 21% up on last year. Seventeen combine harvesters were sold in October, eleven less than the 28 units sold in October last year. On a year-to-date basis, however, combine harvester sales are now approximately 8% up on last year.
Prospects for agricultural machinery sales continue to be favourable. We have come through a period of strong competition in the market, where stock levels of some categories of machinery were high. The market is now returning to some sort of ‘normality’, although that is quite difficult to define in the agricultural machinery industry! Winter crop predictions look good and forecasts for the upcoming summer cropping season are encouraging. Weatherwise, a weak La Niña looks set to prevail for the rest of the year, an encouraging sign for summer crops.
Overall, current predictions are that tractor and combine harvester sales will be of the order of 10% more than last year.
Willie Human
Chairman: South African Agricultural Machinery Association
Contact: Willie Human (083) 954-7232 or Dr. Jim Rankin (011) 453-7249