Total tractor sales in 1998 rose 5.6 percent over 1997, to 135,523 units. 1998 sales of four-wheel-drive tractors plunged 29.8 percent from 1997 and accounted for about 16 percent of heavy-duty (100+ hp) tractor shipments.
1998 sales of self-propelled combines climbed 7.9 percent, to 10,396 units.
Source: Equipment Mfgrs. Institute