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Some 80,695 tractors are registered in the Republic of Ireland, the latest figures from the Department of Transport show.
Cork is the county with the highest number of tractors with 10,303, while the county with the lowest number of tractors is Leitrim with 1,047.
The number one tractor brand in the country is Massey Ferguson, with 18,021 licensed in the country.
John Deere follows in second place with 11,821 tractors licensed.
The tractors which came in at the bottom of the brands in terms of popularity were those that are no longer popular in Ireland and have been replaced by a bigger, more powerful machine.
Bottom of the table is the Marshall, with just 53 in the country, followed by Universal with 74 and Manitou with 81.
Leyland and Belarus at 83 and 84, respectively, made up the remainder of the bottom five.
Drop in tractor licences
Meanwhile, there has been a drop in the number of tractor licences issued annually.
Figures from the Road Safety Authority (RSA) show that there were 55,000 fewer tractor (W) full licences issued last year, compared with 2011.
Last year, 387,157 category W tractor full licences were issued by the RSA, a drop of 12% on the 442,716 full licences issued five years previously.
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