The Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) has released further details of the 2021 tractor registrations, including trends by power and region.
The AEA reports solid year-on-year growth across the power ranges, except in the most powerful machines. There was also some fluctuation in the narrow power bands, which may be due to changes in the range of models available. It noted that high powered tractors performed better than the rest of the market in 2020, performing better than in 2019.
With slower growth at the top-end and strong growth at the lower end of the market, the average power of agricultural tractors dropped back to a similar level to 2019. The 2021 average was 166.3hp, well below the 171hp recorded in 2020. Barring 2020, the AEA reports that the average has been fairly stable over the last four years, although it is too early to predict that the decades-long trend of rising average power has come to an end.
At a regional level, there was year on year increases in every part of the UK, apart from Yorkshire, which were a handful lower than in 2020. The strongest growth was in the East Midlands and Northern Ireland, both of which registered over a third more machines than in 20220. Most other revisions saw increases of between 10% and 25%.
