September 2025: TRACTOR and COMBINE HARVESTER SALES
Retail sales of agricultural equipment during September 2025 were as follows:
| Month – September | Year to date | |||||
| 2025 | 2024 | % | 2025 | 2024 | % | |
| Tractors | 758 | 660 | 14.8 % | 5 773 | 4 731 | 22.0 % |
| Combine Harvesters | 8 | 17 | -52.9 % | 180 | 154 | 16.9 % |
September tractor sales of 758 units were almost 15% more than the 660 units sold in September last year. Year-to-date tractor sales are now 22% up on last year. Eight combine harvesters were sold in September, nine less than the 17 units sold in September last year. On a year-to-date basis, however, combine harvester sales are now approximately 17% up on last year.
Market sentiment remains positive, with the Crop Estimates Committee predicting good summer crop production, significantly up on last year. Winter crop predictions, with the exception of barley, are marginally up on last year. Looking ahead, weather predictions are that a weak La Niña will affect summer and winter cropping areas in the forthcoming few months. This should mean favourable conditions for winter crops and the summer crops which farmers will be planting in the next few months.
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