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{{Infobox company
| name = AGCO Corporation
| predecessor = [[Allis-Chalmers]] 1909–1985, [[Deutz-Allis]] 1985–1990
| former_name = Gleaner-Allis Corporation, Allis-Gleaner Corporation
| logo = AGCO logo.svg
| logo_size = 250px
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{nyse|AGCO}}<br>[[S&P 400|S&P 400 Component]]
| foundation = 1990
| location = [[Duluth, Georgia]]<br>[[United States]]
| area_served = [[World]]wide
| key_people = {{Unbulleted list|{{nowrap|Martin Richenhagen}}|{{nowrap|<small>([[Chairman#Public corporations|Chairman]], [[President (corporate title)|President]], & [[CEO]])</small>}}|
                           {{nowrap|Andrew H. Beck}}|{{nowrap|<small>([[Vice president#In business|Vice President]] & [[CFO]])</small>}}}}
| industry = [[Manufacturer]]
| products = [[Agricultural]] equipment<br>[[Tractor]]s<br>[[Combine harvester|Combines]]<br>Self-propelled [[sprayer]]s<br>Hay tools<br>[[Forage]] equipment<br> Seeding & Tillage equipment<br> [[Diesel engine]]s<br>[[#AGCO brands|List of brands]]
| services = Parts, Service, Finance
| revenue = {{nowrap|{{decrease}} [[US$]] 7.41 billion <small>(2016)</small><ref name="10-K 2016">{{cite web|url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/880266/000088026617000005/a2016agco10-k.htm|title=US SEC: Form 10-K AGCO Corporation|publisher=[[United States Securities and Exchange Commission]]|access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref>}}
| operating_income = {{nowrap|{{decrease}} [[US$]] 288.4 million <small>(2016)</small><ref name="10-K 2016"/>}}
| net_income = {{nowrap|{{decrease}} [[US$]] 160.2 million <small>(2016)</small><ref name="10-K 2016"/>}}
| assets = {{nowrap|{{increase}} [[US$]] 7.17 billion <small>(2016)</small><ref name="10-K 2016"/>}}
| equity = {{nowrap|{{decrease}} [[US$]] 2.84 billion <small>(2016)</small><ref name="10-K 2016"/>}}
| num_employees = 20,462 <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/fortune500/agco/|title=AGCO|website=Fortune|access-date=2018-12-14|archive-date=2018-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215022239/http://fortune.com/fortune500/agco/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| num_employees_year = 2017
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.AGCOcorp.com}}
}}

'''AGCO Corporation''' is an American [[Agriculture|agricultural]] [[Heavy equipment|equipment]] [[manufacturer]]. Their [[headquarters]] are in [[Duluth, Georgia]], United States.

==History==
[[File:Hesston 5670 round baler.jpg|thumb|left|Hesston 5670 round baler, in 2010]]

AGCO was created in 1990 when executives at Deutz-Allis bought out Deutz-Allis North American operations from the parent corporation KHD (Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz). KHD was a German company that owned the [[Deutz-Fahr]] brand of agriculture equipment. KHD had bought parts of the Allis-Chalmers agricultural equipment business five years earlier.<ref name="History of AGCO">{{cite web|url=http://www.agcocorp.com/company/history.aspx|title=History of AGCO|website=History of AGCO}}</ref>

In March 1991, AGCO bought the Hesston Corporation.<ref name="AGCO-Jul-1996-S-4/A">{{cite web|url=http://edgar.secdatabase.com/1655/95014496004301/filing-main.htm |title=AGCO, Form S-4/A, Registration of Securities, Filing Date Jul 15, 1996 |publisher=secdatabase.com |access-date =Jan 1, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.progressiveforage.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4471:lyle-yost-founder-of-hesston-corp-passes-away-at-age-99&catid=37:industry-news&Itemid=140|publisher=Progressive Forage|title=Lyle Yost, founder of Hesston Corp., passes away at age 99|access-date=September 16, 2012|date=May 4, 2012|archive-date=March 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313203812/http://www.progressiveforage.com/index.php?catid=37:industry-news&id=4471:lyle-yost-founder-of-hesston-corp-passes-away-at-age-99&itemid=140&option=com_content&view=article|url-status=dead}}</ref> Because of this, they gained hay and forage equipment as well as technologies such as the grain auger (used to unload grain quickly from combines), invented in 1947 by [[Lyle Yost]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kansas.com/2012/04/06/2286965/lyle-yost-founder-of-hesston-industries.html|publisher=[[Wichita Eagle]]|first=Dan|last=Voorhis|title=Lyle Yost, founder of Hesston Industries, dies at age 99|access-date=September 12, 2012|date=April 6, 2012Z|archive-date=August 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810092401/http://www.kansas.com/2012/04/06/2286965/lyle-yost-founder-of-hesston-industries.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Hesston had a 50 percent joint venture with [[Case IH|Case International]], now a part of [[CNH Global]]. AGCO bought the [[White Tractor]] line from the Allied Corporation's White-New Idea company.<ref name="AGCO-Jul-1996-424B3">{{cite web|url=http://edgar.secdatabase.com/1762/95014496004408/filing-main.htm |title=AGCO, Form 424B3, Prospectus, Filing Date Jul 17, 1996 |publisher=secdatabase.com |access-date =Jan 1, 2013}}</ref> In 1993, AGCO bought the rest of [[White Farm Equipment|White-New Idea]],<ref name="AGCO-Jan-1997-S-3">{{cite web|url=http://edgar.secdatabase.com/2195/95014497000509/filing-main.htm |title=AGCO, Form S-3, Registration Statement, Filing Date Jan 22, 1997 |publisher=secdatabase.com |access-date =Jan 1, 2013}}</ref> gaining New Idea hay equipment and manure spreaders, and White planters. White New Idea had a big manufacturing plant in [[Coldwater, Ohio]], USA.

In 2013, AGCO’s GSI acquired Johnson System, a manufacturer of [[catwalk]]s and towers.<ref>GSI aims to be ‘local’ supplier across the globe, World-Grain; https://www.world-grain.com/articles/5267-gsi-aims-to-be-local-supplier-across-the-globe</ref> 

In 2017, AGCO acquired Precision Planting, LLC, a planting equipment and technology business.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.farmindustrynews.com/business/precision-planting-sold-agco|title=Precision Planting sold to Agco|date=26 July 2017|website=farmindustrynews.com}}</ref>

==References==
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==Other websites==
{{Commons category|AGCO}} 
* [http://www.AGCOcorp.com/ AGCO] (official website)
* [http://www.secdatabase.com/CIK/880266/Company-Name/AGCO-CORP-DE AGCO SEC Filings]

[[Category:Companies based in Georgia (U.S. state)]]
[[Category:1990 establishments in the United States]]
[[Category:Manufacturing companies of the United States]]