160hp+ tractors accounted for 5,196 (53.5%) of the 9,072 new 50hp+ tractors registered in the UK in the first nine months of this year. That’s 832 more than the 4,364 tractors registered in the same period in 2022.
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Figures just published by the AEA show that the numbers from 201-240hp dipped by 0.2%, but there were strong increases in all other power categories. The 161-200hp bracket remains the most popular, up 30.3% in the first nine months to 2,547 units and a leading 26.3% share (1,954/21% in 2022) of the total market.
The number of units from 241-320hp rose by a third from 578 units in Q1-Q3 in 2022 to 751 in the same period this year. This segment accounted for nearly 8.0% of all tractors registered in the UK in the first nine months of this year. It is still a small market, but registrations of 320hp+ tractors increased by more than a fifth to 381 units (312 Q1-Q3 in 2022).
At the opposite end of the powers scale, the 4,506 tractors registered from 50-160hp from Q1-Q3 was down 427 units on the 4,933 units registered in the same nine months in 2022. All told, the 50-160hp power bracket represented 46.3% of the total market in the first nine months (53.1% same period 2022). The biggest drops were for tractors from 101-120hp (-14.5) and 141-160hp (-18.5%).
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Source: AEA
At regional level, registrations across the year to date were similar to or higher than in January to September 2022 in all parts of the country apart from north-west England (-2.0%) and Northern Ireland (-6.0%).
Growth was strongest in the East Midlands, where 18% more tractors were registered from Q1-Q3 this year. Southern England also recorded faster year-on-year growth than the UK as a whole.
UK tractor registrations up nearly 4.5% – Profi
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