[mad_as_he$$]

Well those images aren’t “tractors” to anyone with any farm experience. They are combines or harvesters.

https://www.deere.com/en/harvesting/x-series-combines

Set you back about $400,000 here in the US.

[mad_as_he$$]

BTW $400,000 is small one with no options.

[crz]

400 grand would be a poor used one and an older one at that.

The new ones are 900 thousand to one million dollars and about 700 grand for a good used one that has been gone through.

[Hootowl99]

Spring 2022, I read that Russia had captured then stole a large amount of John Deere equipment from farms and Deere dealers. So, being Russians they loaded them up on flatbeds and shipped everything to Russia.

The problem was that the equipment is all OEM equipped with antitheft transponders. Oops. Farmers, etc. contacted Deere to report stolen equipment. Deere pinged the equipment via satellite and bricked all the electronics. The gear was totally immobilized and nonfunctional when it came time to unload in Russia. BTW, antitheft transponders also have GPS and Deere knows where their equipment is.

I'm sure a long chain of officers were saddened at the loss of big time rubles on the black market.