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I see why you might think that but is there really data to back it up?

Making good products and respecting your customers is a great way to stay in business. I don't see why china selling tractors would change that. If anything, it would matter more than ever.

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Because the vast majority of customers are fickle and estimating true long term cost is very difficult so many make purchasing decisions based on sticker price. Also most farms are corporate farms where I suspect they just deal with JD support contracts as the price of doing business based into their financial models vs having their own.

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