With slower year-on-year growth among higher-powered machines and strong growth at the lower end of the power range, the average power of the 12,017 new (>50hp) tractors registered in the UK last year was 166.3hp. This was well below the 171hp recorded in 2020, but similar to the 166.0hp in 2019.
Barring 2020, the average has been fairly stable over the last four years, although the AEA reckons it is probably too early to say whether the decades-long trend of steadily rising average power has come to an end.
Source: AEA
Fewer new 321hp+ tractors (-0.5%) were registered in 2021. Otherwise, there was solid year-on-year growth across the power range. Registrations of 101-120hp tractors increased by 7.0% and 51-100hp machines by nearly a third. The largest growth was in the 121-140hp segment; up by roughly 38.0%.
At regional level, there were year-on-year increases in every part of the UK apart from Yorkshire, where registrations of agricultural tractors in 2021 were a handful lower than in 2020.
Source: AEA
Strongest growth was in the East Midlands (+40.7%) and Northern Ireland (+37.4%). Most other regions saw increases of between 10% and 25%, compared with 2020.
