Agricultural Implement Manufacturing (U.S.)

NAICS 2022 code 33311. NAICS is the North American Industry Classification System, the U.S. federal government's standard for grouping businesses by activity. This is a NAICS "industry" (five-digit) level that rolls up two more detailed industries: 333111 (farm machinery — which also carries all commercial turf and grounds-care equipment) and 333112 (home lawn and garden equipment).

1. Overview

This level is where the country's powered ground-machines get built — everything from a 600-horsepower combine that harvests grain to a battery-powered push mower in a suburban garage. It bundles two businesses that look similar on a factory floor (steel, engines or motors, castings, assembly lines, dealer networks) but sell to completely different customers: farms and ranches on one side, homeowners on the other.

One classification quirk shapes everything below. The federal line between the two children is home versus commercial, not farm versus lawn: the machines landscaping contractors and golf courses buy are classified in 333111 alongside tractors and combines, while 333112 is strictly homeowner gear.[1] So the "farm" child is really "farm plus professional turf," and the two largest firms in the level — Deere and Toro — straddle the boundary rather than sitting on one side of it.[1][8][14]

Why treat them as one level, and why it matters to an investor: the machinery, the supply chain, and — critically — the leading brand are shared. Deere & Company (John Deere) is the number-one player in both children, which is the single most important fact about this rollup. So the level is best read as the Deere-anchored machinery complex, split into a large, deeply cyclical, business-to-business capital-goods core (farm and professional equipment, ~82% of the dollars) and a smaller, consumer-facing, more seasonal edge (home lawn and garden, ~18%) that happens to be further along a battery-electric transition.[4]

Both children are down at once. The most important change since this page was last written is that the level's supposed internal diversification did not show up in 2025. Farm-machinery factory shipments fell 15.8% to about $30.8 billion,[6] and on the lawn side the 2024 restocking rebound reversed — Toro's Residential segment fell 14% with its margin nearly halving.[14] Segment margins compressed on both sides in the same year. Details in sections 5 and 10.

Public vs. private ways in. The farm side is one of the more investable corners of heavy industry — the global leaders (Deere, CNH, AGCO) trade on U.S. exchanges, with a second tier of listed specialists behind them. The lawn side has no pure-play stock; every listed maker is a diversified industrial where mowers are one segment. Private capital plays across both through large foreign and family-owned makers, a fragmented and consolidating dealer channel, the precision-ag and battery-tool ecosystems, and equipment finance. Details in sections 4 and 10.

2. What's inside — the two child industries and how they differ

The level splits cleanly in two. They share a parent because they share manufacturing DNA; they diverge on almost everything an investor cares about — who buys, how big, which direction, who owns them, and how you get exposure.

GPS = Global Positioning System; FTC = Federal Trade Commission; CARB = California Air Resources Board; HHI = Herfindahl-Hirschman Index.

The through-line. Three things bind the children into a real level rather than an accounting bucket. First, Deere leads both — a farm-cycle bet and a lawn-and-turf bet are partly the same bet on one company, and Toro straddles the same seam from the other direction (its Professional segment sits on the 333111 side of the line, its Residential segment on the 333112 side).[8][14] Second, both are durable-goods manufacturing with the same economic skeleton: big-ticket machines, high fixed factory costs, sales through dealers and (on the lawn side) big-box retail, a high-margin aftermarket annuity, and a technology transition layered on top. Third — and this is new — they turned down together. The differences that remain are in degree of cyclicality (farm is far more violent, tied to crop income rather than the consumer), shape of the tail (a thousand shortline firms on the farm side, ninety-four firms total on the lawn side), and degree of investability (farm gives you listed leaders; lawn gives you segments).

3. How big it is (the rollup)

Histometrics' ground-truth federal figures for the combined U.S. manufacturing level:

Average pay works out to roughly $70,000 per worker[3] — solidly middle-class manufacturing wages. That level average is pulled up by the farm side, which reports roughly $73,000; the lawn child sits below the level average.[4]

The 2022 snapshot is now stale on the big side. The census figures above are a 2022 benchmark. Since then the dominant child has shrunk materially: monthly Census shipments data put 2025 farm-machinery output at about $30.8 billion, down 15.8% from roughly $36.6 billion in 2024.[6] There is no equivalent monthly series for the lawn child, so we do not restate a current level total — but read the $52.46 billion as a benchmark year, not as today's run rate.

Concentration at the level. The four largest firms account for 54.6% of receipts (the four-firm concentration ratio, or CR4); the top eight for 63.5%; the top 20 for 74.3%; and the top 50 for 84.1%.[2] The HHI (a standard concentration measure that squares and sums each firm's market share) is suppressed in the federal data for this level and for the farm child; the lawn child's is 976, below the ~1,500 line regulators treat as "moderately concentrated."[2][4]

The rollup's ratios are worth reading carefully, because they understate how concentrated each market actually is. The rollup CR4 (54.6%) sits between the two children's (farm 61.6%, lawn 50.1%). But at every cutoff beyond the top four, the rollup sits below both children: CR8 of 63.5% against 67.1% (farm) and 78.4% (lawn); CR20 of 74.3% against 75.9% and 96.1%; CR50 of 84.1% against 84.2% and 99.5%.[2][4] Merging two markets whose runner-up names differ dilutes measured concentration even though Deere tops both. The honest reading: neither child is competitive in the way the rollup number suggests, and the lawn child in particular is eight firms deep and then essentially over.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) sets the small-business size standard at 1,250 employees for farm machinery and 1,500 for lawn and garden[5] — both high, because even mid-sized machinery makers are large by headcount.

The undercount / mismeasurement caveat (read the $52.46B correctly). These figures count U.S. factory output — value made in American plants — not the size of the U.S. market for this equipment, and not the global scale of U.S.-based makers. Four distortions:

• Imports understate factories vs. what buyers actually spend. A large share of what Americans buy is made abroad: compact tractors from Kubota (Japan) and Mahindra (India); cordless mowers, trimmers, and blowers from China, Mexico, and Japan (Ryobi, EGO, Greenworks).[34] Market researchers put the U.S. lawn-mower market alone near $7 billion and the broader outdoor-power-equipment category well above the ~$9.6 billion of domestic lawn-and-garden shipments the Census records — precisely because so much product is made offshore.[33][34]
• The global footprint dwarfs the domestic line. Deere alone reported worldwide net sales and revenues of about $45.7 billion in fiscal 2025[7] — nearly the size of the entire domestic level — because most is earned abroad and across construction and finance. A single company's global revenue can exceed the whole U.S. NAICS figure without contradiction.
• The 82/18 split is not "farm vs. lawn." Commercial mowing and grounds-care equipment is counted in the farm child, so part of the ~$42.8 billion is turf, not agriculture.[1] Anyone sizing "U.S. lawn equipment manufacturing" from the 333112 line is measuring only the homeowner half of it.
• Firm counts don't cleanly add. The children's firm counts (1,033 + 94) sum slightly above the level's 1,122 because some firms — Deere and Toro above all — operate in both children and are counted once at this level.[2][4] The long tail (~1,000 small shortline and specialty makers, essentially all on the farm side) is captured by the establishment count but contributes only a thin slice of the dollars.

Read $52.46 billion as "value made in U.S. agricultural-implement and home-lawn plants in 2022," not "the American machinery economy."

4. The investable universe (where value concentrates across the children)

Value in this level is heavily concentrated in the farm-machinery child, and within it, in a handful of listed global leaders. The lawn child holds household brands but no focused stock. Tickers and scale figures are confined to this section and section 10; treat the scale numbers as recent and approximate — they move constantly.

The core: public farm-machinery leaders (most of the level's investable value).

The lawn child: everything listed is a diversified industrial.

NYSE = New York Stock Exchange; OTC = over-the-counter; HKEX = Hong Kong Exchange; STO = Stockholm; TSE = Tokyo Stock Exchange; OPE = outdoor power equipment; ADR = American Depositary Receipt, a U.S.-traded proxy for a foreign stock.

Major private and foreign-owned makers (not directly investable on U.S. markets): Kubota (Japan)[20], Mahindra (India), Claas and Kuhn (Europe), Kinze and Vermeer (private Iowa firms) on the farm side; STIHL (German, private; €5.48 billion of 2025 revenue and 20,246 employees globally)[21], Bad Boy Mowers, Ariens/Gravely, Scag, Grasshopper, and Greenworks on the lawn side, plus engine supplier Briggs & Stratton, now owned by KPS Capital Partners after its 2020 Chapter 11.[22] A striking pattern across the level: the fastest-growing, most all-American manufacturing — precision-ag startups, zero-turns, robotic mowers — sits disproportionately in private hands, while the public leaders are the mature incumbents.

For a diversified route without stock-picking, broad industrial and agribusiness exchange-traded funds (ETFs — baskets of stocks) hold Deere and peers; there is no U.S.-listed ETF dedicated to either child.

5. How the money works

Both children are durable-goods manufacturing: owners earn on unit economics × volume, minus steel/engine/battery input costs, times how full they run their plants and how well they manage the dealer channel — plus a high-margin aftermarket. The economics that matter here are capital-goods economics; this is not a utility, a REIT, or a miner, so rate base, funds-from-operations, and all-in sustaining cost language do not apply. What does apply:

• Cyclicality — but to two different masters. Farm equipment tracks net farm income and crop prices (a USDA — U.S. Department of Agriculture — number), not GDP; lawn equipment tracks housing, homeownership, consumer confidence, and interest rates.[8][25][35] The farm cycle is deeper and more violent; the lawn cycle is milder but real. The 2025 lesson is that they can still bottom together.
• Operating leverage, visible in the numbers. Heavy fixed costs mean profits swing hard with volume, and 2025 put that on display across both children: Deere's Production & Precision Ag operating margin fell to 15.4% from 21.7%[8]; CNH's Agriculture segment to 6.2% adjusted EBIT from 10.5%[12]; AGCO reported 7.7% adjusted operating margin[11]; and Toro's Residential segment EBIT margin fell to 4.2% from 7.9% on a 14% sales decline.[14] These are not comparable NAICS margins — different geographies, segment definitions, and adjustment policies — but as cycle indicators they all point the same way.
• Underbuilding is the downcycle's signature move. Makers deliberately build fewer machines than dealers sell to draw down inventory, which crushes factory throughput on the way down — the mechanism behind the farm child's 15.8% shipments drop in 2025.[6]
• The dealer and retail channel. Both children sell wholesale into inventory: farm through independent dealers (Deere alone reports roughly 1,600 U.S./Canada ag dealer locations[8]), lawn through dealers and big-box retail. Channel inventory swings are a top earnings driver — farm-maker inventories fell from a ~$7.2B peak in late 2022 to ~$5.7B by December 2025[23], and Toro swung from a rare 2023 quarterly loss (retailers destocking)[15] to a 2024 rebound and then back down 14% in FY2025.[14]
• Seasonality differs sharply. Lawn output is squeezed into a narrow window — residential shipments concentrate from February through June, so working capital and receivables balloon in the first half of the fiscal year and a cool, wet spring strands inventory.[14] Farm equipment is built to order against a management-reported backlog, which is a cleaner leading indicator.
• The aftermarket annuity. Every machine in the field is a stream of parts, blades, belts, and service — higher-margin and far less cyclical than new-machine sales. The bigger a firm's installed base, the more this cushions downturns; it rewards Deere, Toro, and Husqvarna.
• Input costs and tariffs. Steel, aluminum, castings, engines, electronics, batteries, resin, and freight dominate the bill; tariffs raise it directly. Deere absorbed ~$600M of tariff cost in 2025 and guided to ~$1.2B for 2026; AGCO ~$40M rising toward ~$110M.[23] Electrification does not remove input risk on the lawn side — it swaps small gasoline engines for cells, battery-management electronics, motors, and power semiconductors.[14]
• Buyer power differs. Farm makers face fragmented (if consolidating) farm customers through their own dealers; lawn makers face a handful of retail giants. Home Depot and Lowe's alone were 15% and 12% of Stanley Black & Decker's consolidated 2025 sales — a concentration the farm side does not have.[17]
• Captive finance (farm side). Deere, CNH, and AGCO run in-house lenders that finance dealers and farmers, keeping machines moving when bank credit tightens — but adding credit and interest-rate risk.
• The lock-in growth story, in two flavors. On the farm side, precision agriculture (guidance, autonomy, per-acre and subscription fees; a ~$13B market growing double-digits[31]); on the lawn side, the proprietary battery-and-charger ecosystem — once a household owns one brand's batteries, compatible tools are cheaper and switching is unattractive.[14] Both convert one-time hardware buyers into stickier, higher-margin customers; both are the swing factor for the level's through-cycle margins.

6. What drives demand

Two demand engines run in parallel, which is the point of the rollup — though 2025 showed they can align:

• Farm equipment: net farm income and crop prices are the master variable. USDA forecasts 2026 net farm income of $153.4 billion (−0.7% nominally) and net cash farm income of $158.5 billion (+3.0%), while sector debt rises 5.2% to $624.7 billion and working capital falls 9.2% — aggregate income holding up while the liquidity of the crop producers who buy big machines tightens.[25] Beyond income: the age of the fleet and replacement cycles (machines last decades), interest rates (nearly everything is financed), farm policy (the farm bill, crop insurance, biofuel mandates), and global grain trade and tariffs.
• Who the farm customer actually is. The 2022 Census of Agriculture counted 1,900,487 farms, down 7% from 2017, with average size up 5% to 463 acres — but only 105,384 farms (6% of the total) had $1 million or more in sales, and they produced more than three-quarters of agricultural output value.[26] The addressable market for high-end equipment is far narrower than the headline farm count, and it is consolidating toward larger, more technology-intensive machines.
• Lawn equipment: housing starts and a homeownership rate near 66%, the 7–10-year mower replacement cycle, weather and the length of the growing season, consumer confidence and rates on financed riding machines, and HOA lawn rules.[35] Deere names housing conditions, weather, consumer spending, unemployment, rates, and inflation as the drivers of its lawn-tractor and mower demand.[8]
• The boundary itself moves demand. When households outsource lawn care to landscapers, demand shifts across the two children — away from homeowner machines (333112) and toward commercial turf equipment, which is classified in 333111.[1] The do-it-yourself-versus-hire-a-pro split is one of the few variables that moves the level's internal mix rather than its total.
• Shared, structural: labor scarcity pushes automation on both sides (farm autonomy, robotic mowers), with rural connectivity improving as a precondition (farms reporting internet access rose from 75% in 2017 to 79% in 2022).[26] Electrification and precision technology reshape what gets bought more than how much: OPEI reported battery-electric products exceeded 56% of U.S. outdoor-power-equipment unit shipments as early as 2021 — a units figure spanning the broader OPE category, where a cheap trimmer counts the same as a riding mower, so it is not a revenue share and not a 333112-only figure.[32]

7. Regulation

Both children are lightly regulated relative to, say, pharmaceuticals, but each has one defining regime plus shared exposures:

• Right to repair (the farm child's defining fight). After a 2023 voluntary memorandum of understanding critics called toothless, the FTC sued Deere in January 2025 and in July 2026 secured a settlement requiring Deere to give farmers and independent shops the same diagnostic software and repair tools as its dealers for ten years — including fault-code resets, component programming, and restarting machines after emissions-related shutdowns — and barring dealer retaliation.[27] This reshapes high-margin aftermarket-service economics and sets an industry template.
• Engine emissions / electrification (the lawn child's defining rule). California's CARB requires most new small off-road engines (SORE) — the engines in mowers, trimmers, and blowers — to be zero-emission from model year 2024, effectively ending sales of new gas home lawn equipment in California (it does not ban using equipment already owned; generators and large pressure washers follow in 2028).[28] California typically leads and other states follow; federally, EPA Phase 3 small spark-ignition standards are codified principally in 40 CFR Parts 1054 and 1060.[29] On the farm side, off-road diesels must meet EPA Tier 4 after-treatment standards, which add engineering, certification, and service cost.[29]
• Product safety. Walk-behind mowers must comply with CPSC's 16 CFR Part 1205; rollover protection, blade guarding, and no-mow-in-reverse come from CPSC rules and voluntary ANSI/OPEI and ASABE standards, with OSHA covering the workplace.[30] Battery products swap fuel risk for thermal-runaway risk — a 2025 Ryobi recall covered roughly 217,500 U.S. mowers after 97 overheating reports including five fires.[30]
• Trade. Steel and aluminum tariffs raise input costs across both children; Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports hit the battery products that dominate the lawn side and are pushing sourcing toward Mexico, Vietnam, and U.S. assembly.[23][34] On the farm side, retaliation cuts customers' income at the same time.
• Local rules and unsettled frontiers. Municipal gas leaf-blower bans and HOA lawn-height rules nudge lawn demand in opposite directions.[28][35] Autonomy — driverless tractors and robotic mowers — runs ahead of settled regulation on both sides.

OSHA = Occupational Safety and Health Administration; CPSC = Consumer Product Safety Commission; HOA = homeowners association; EPA = Environmental Protection Agency; ASABE = American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

8. Consolidation

The level is a concentrated oligopoly on both sides — with a long tail on the farm side and almost none on the lawn side, where eight firms hold 78.4% of revenue and the top twenty hold 96.1%.[4] Consolidation has already shaped the top. On the farm side, AGCO was assembled from Massey Ferguson, Fendt, and Valtra; CNH from Case and New Holland, and CNH now names Claas, Kubota, Mahindra, Argo Tractors, and SDF as its other significant competitors.[12] On the lawn side, Stanley Black & Decker's $1.6B acquisition of MTD (2021) folded Cub Cadet and Troy-Bilt — a ~$2.6 billion business — under one owner, followed by Excel/Hustler for $374 million.[16][17] Barriers to entry are steep everywhere — capital-heavy plants, decades-deep dealer networks, brand loyalty (John Deere green is generational) — and are widening into a technology moat: the majors buy GPS, sensor, and autonomy startups (e.g., CNH's purchase of Raven) to avoid disintermediation by software players.

The live disruption is different in each child. On the farm side it is low-cost foreign entrants (Mahindra, Chinese makers) at the small-tractor end — notably the one tractor category that held up in 2025, with under-40-horsepower sales down only 9.1% against 41.6% for four-wheel-drive machines[24] — plus antitrust and right-to-repair scrutiny on the leaders. On the lawn side it is battery insurgents: EGO (Chervon) and Ryobi (Techtronic) leveraged cordless-tool ecosystems to lead U.S. outdoor-power-equipment share by units and dollars and take shelf space from legacy gas brands.[19] Robotics is opening a premium category — Husqvarna launched 13 boundary-wire-free models in 2025 even as low-end entrants compress prices.[18] And legacy players are simply leaving rather than funding the transition: Honda exited U.S. gas-mower manufacturing in September 2023,[36] and engine supplier Briggs & Stratton went through Chapter 11 in 2020 before its sale to KPS.[22] Electrification tends to commoditize mechanical engineering while concentrating value in cells, software, and power electronics — a shift that favors platform breadth and retail placement over decades of casting expertise.

9. Risks

• Deep cyclicality (worse on the farm side). Earnings can halve peak-to-trough; the farm child is in a multi-year downturn — 2025 shipments −15.8%,[6] tractors −9.9%, combines −35.6%, four-wheel-drive tractors −41.6%.[24]
• The diversification may be weaker than it looks. The rollup's appeal is two demand engines, but in 2025 both compressed at once — rates, tariffs, and channel destocking hit farm and consumer big-ticket buying together.[6][14] Do not underwrite this level as internally hedged.
• Channel-inventory whiplash. Overbuilding into a downturn forces painful destocking and production cuts on both sides (Toro's 2023 loss and 2025 residential decline; the 2022→2025 farm-inventory drawdown).[14][15][23]
• Tariffs and trade wars — raising input costs and, on the farm side, cutting customers' income via retaliation, simultaneously.[23][34]
• Technology-transition risk cutting both ways. Right-to-repair erodes a high-margin service stream; on the lawn side, legacy gas makers must fund electrification while battery-native rivals already hold platforms and retail share.[19][27]
• Customer and retail concentration. Suppliers ride on a few large makers; on the lawn side a few big-box buyers hold the shelf (Home Depot 15% and Lowe's 12% of Stanley Black & Decker's 2025 sales).[17]
• Product safety and recalls, now with a battery flavor — the 2025 Ryobi recall of ~217,500 mowers shows the potential scope.[30]
• Software, connectivity, and cyber risk on the farm side: connected fleets add cybersecurity, privacy, interoperability, and obsolescence exposure, and a disabled fleet or compromised farm data carries liability well beyond a mechanical failure.

10. How to invest, and the outlook

Public-market routes. The cleanest exposure to the level's value is the farm-machinery leaders: Deere (DE) as the blue-chip, technology-led #1 that also gives you the lawn/turf kicker and construction/finance; CNH as a more ag-weighted global player; AGCO as the pure-play. Narrower angles sit behind them — Lindsay (LNN) in irrigation, Alamo (ALG) in vegetation management, Titan International (TWI) in components, and Titan Machinery (TITN) for dealer-tier rather than manufacturing economics. For focused lawn exposure, Toro (TTC) is the closest thing to a turf-and-residential play, with the caveat that homeowner equipment is only ~19% of its sales[14]; Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) is a tools-and-outdoor turnaround that owns Cub Cadet; Husqvarna (HSQVY), Techtronic (TTNDY), and Chervon (2285) are the battery/robotic angles. Broad industrial and agribusiness ETFs give diversified exposure. Dividends are modest (Deere yields ~1%[10]) — this is a total-return, cyclically timed level, not an income one.

Private routes. Across both children: the large private and foreign makers (Kubota, Kinze, Vermeer, Claas on the farm side; STIHL, Bad Boy, Ariens/Gravely, Scag on the lawn side), the fragmented and consolidating dealer channel (private equity has been rolling up ag-equipment dealers), the precision-ag/autonomy and battery-tool startup ecosystems, component and battery-platform suppliers, equipment finance and leasing, and the large used-machinery market. Dealer and service businesses give exposure to the installed base without the full cyclicality and capital intensity of manufacturing. Because so much of the highest-growth domestic manufacturing is private, well-run makers have credible strategic exits to the public consolidators.

Outlook. The parent-level story has changed: as of 2026 the two children are not comfortably out of phase. The farm child sits in the trough of a cyclical downturn — soft crop-producer liquidity despite steady aggregate farm income,[25] inventories being worked down, tariffs raising costs, and 2025 shipments down nearly 16%[6] — a backdrop that has historically been the setup for the next up-leg (aging fleet, consolidating and technology-hungry large farms, eventual commodity recovery, possible rate cuts releasing deferred demand), not a permanent state. The lawn child did not deliver the clean recovery the last read expected: after the 2023 destock and a 2024 rebound, residential volumes fell again in FY2025 and margins nearly halved, so channel normalization is still the swing factor rather than a completed event.[14][15] Structurally, the same question runs through both: whether the incumbents — Deere above all, since it leads both — convert one-time buyers into recurring precision-ag, connected-machine, and battery-ecosystem customers. If they do, the level's through-cycle margins and valuation re-rate upward; if right-to-repair, low-cost imports, and battery-native rivals win the margin fight, they do not. The cycle will drive the next year; the technology transition will decide the decade.

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1. NAICS definitions and cross-references for 33311 / 333111 / 333112, including the placement of commercial turf and grounds-care equipment in 333111 and non-powered tools in 332216. https://www.census.gov/naics/?details=333&input=333&year=2022; https://www.naics.com/naics-code-description/?code=333111; https://www.naics.com/naics-code-description/?code=333112
2. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census, Concentration by Largest Firms (NAICS 33311): receipts $52.46B; 1,122 firms; CR4 54.6%, CR8 63.5%, CR20 74.3%, CR50 84.1%; HHI suppressed. https://data.census.gov/
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17. Stanley Black & Decker, 2025 Annual Report (MTD ~$2.6B revenue; Excel/Hustler $374M; ~$15B Tools & Outdoor segment; Home Depot 15% and Lowe's 12% of consolidated 2025 sales). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000120677426000122/swk4498821-ars.pdf
18. Husqvarna Group, "Year-End Report January–December 2025," 2026 (group net sales SEK 46.6B / ~$4.5B; 6.2% adjusted operating margin; 13 boundary-wire-free robotic mower models launched in 2025). https://www.husqvarnagroup.com/en/report/year-end-report-january-december-2025
19. OpenBrand, "Outdoor Power Equipment Market Share: Q4 2025" (Ryobi ~24% unit share; EGO ~15% dollar share), 2025. https://openbrand.com/newsroom/blog/outdoor-power-equipment-market-trends
20. Kubota Manufacturing of America; AGDaily, "Where are Kubota tractors made" (Gainesville, GA; 100,000+ units/yr; U.S. compact-tractor leader). https://www.agdaily.com/technology/where-kubota-tractors-made/
21. STIHL, "STIHL Group 2025 Company Report" (2025 revenue €5.48B; 20,246 employees; privately held), 2025. https://www.stihlusa.com/en/support-events/about-stihl/press/stihl-group-2025-report
22. Briggs & Stratton, "Briggs & Stratton Announces Sale to KPS Capital Partners," 2020. https://www.briggsandstratton.com/en-us/news-room/briggs-and-stratton-announces-sale-to-kps-capital-partners
23. farmdoc daily (Univ. of Illinois), "The U.S. Farm Machinery & Equipment Market: Sales, Inventories, and Tariff Headwinds" (inventories $7.2B peak → $5.7B Dec 2025; Deere tariff $600M/2025 → ~$1.2B/2026; AGCO ~$40M → ~$110M), Feb. 2026. https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2026/02/the-u-s-farm-machinery-equipment-market-sales-inventories-and-tariff-headwinds.html
24. Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), "U.S. Ag Tractor and Combine Sales — December 2025" (tractors 195,857, −9.9%; combines 3,579, −35.6%; under-40hp 2WD −9.1%; 100+hp 2WD −22.6%; 4WD −41.6%). https://www.aem.org/getattachment/9ee3a193-4c55-4c47-8e3a-ec1237b41f09/US-Month-Ag-Report-2025-12.pdf
25. USDA Economic Research Service, "Farm Sector Income & Finances: Highlights from the Farm Income Forecast" (2026 net farm income $153.4B, −0.7%; net cash farm income $158.5B, +3.0%; debt $624.7B, +5.2%; working capital −9.2%), May 2026. https://ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-sector-income-finances/highlights-from-the-farm-income-forecast
26. USDA, 2022 Census of Agriculture summary (1,900,487 farms, −7% from 2017; average 463 acres, +5%; 105,384 farms with $1M+ sales produced >75% of value; farm internet access 75% → 79%). https://data.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2024/02-13-2024.php
27. Federal Trade Commission, "FTC, States Secure Settlement with Deere & Company, Advancing Farmers' Right to Repair" (ten-year access to repair software and tools; suit Jan. 2025, settlement July 2026). https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/07/ftc-states-secure-settlement-deere-company-advancing-farmers-right-repair
28. California Air Resources Board, "CARB approves updated regulations requiring most new small off-road engines be zero emission by 2024," 2021. https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carb-approves-updated-regulations-requiring-most-new-small-road-engines-be-zero-emission-2024
29. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, nonroad engine standards — Tier 4 compression-ignition (heavy equipment) and Phase 3 small spark-ignition (40 CFR Parts 1054, 1060). https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/regulations-emissions-heavy-equipment-compression; https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/regulations-emissions-small-equipment-tools
30. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission — "Power Lawn Mowers, Walk-Behind" (16 CFR Part 1205) and "TTI Outdoor Power Equipment Recalls RYOBI Battery-Powered Mowers Due to Fire Hazard" (~217,500 units; 97 overheating reports; five fires), 2025. https://www.cpsc.gov/FAQ/Power-Lawn-Mowers-Walk-Behind; https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/TTI-Outdoor-Power-Equipment-Recalls-RYOBI-Battery-Powered-Mowers-Due-to-Fire-Hazard
31. GMInsights, precision-farming and autonomous farm-equipment market sizing (~$13B precision-farming market 2025, double-digit growth), 2025-2026. https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/autonomous-farm-equipment-market
32. Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI), Quarterly Report, March 2022 (battery-electric products >56% of U.S. outdoor-power-equipment unit shipments in 2021). https://www.opei.org/documents/167/032022quarterlyreport.pdf
33. Mordor Intelligence, "United States Lawn Mowers Market Size & Share Outlook" (U.S. lawn-mower market near $7B), 2025. https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/united-states-lawn-mowers-market
34. SICCODE.com, "NAICS Code 333112" (imports from China, Mexico, and Japan; exposure to Section 301 tariffs), 2024. https://siccode.com/naics-code/333112/lawn-garden-tractor-home-lawn-garden-equipment-manufacturing
35. MarketDataForecast, "U.S. Lawn Mower Market Size, Share and Analysis" (homeownership ~66%; 7–10-year replacement cycle; weather; HOA rules), 2025. https://www.marketdataforecast.com/market-reports/united-states-lawn-mowers-market
36. Rural Lifestyle Dealer, "Honda to Exit U.S. Lawn Mower Market, Continue EU Production" (exit September 2023). https://www.rurallifestyledealer.com/articles/10359-honda-to-exit-the-lawn-mower-market