The market for used agricultural tractors, imported and re-registered in Ireland increased by 7% in 2025 compared with 2024. This is based on registration statistics generated by the Revenue Commissioners, the organisation responsible for vehicle registrations in Ireland.

Throughout 2025, 2,971 used tractors were imported and registered in Ireland, the highest recorded since 2021 when 3,726 units were registered.

The strength of this imported used tractor market remains significant in Ireland because it exceeded the numbers of new agricultural tractors registered during 2025 by 904 units.

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Vintage tractors

When the number of vintage tractors is removed from the figure, there were 2,602 used classic and more modern secondhand tractors imported and registered in Ireland during 2025. The number of so-called vintage tractors, those more than 30 years old, increased in 2025.

Defining a vintage or a classic vehicle will always be open to personal interpretation; for the purpose of this market examination, older and clearly vintage tractors from the early 1990s have been excluded.

As can be clearly seen in Table 1, brand loyalty continues to be related to dealer activities in the imported tractor sector.

With a slight drop in market share, the New Holland brand dominated the imported used tractor market again in 2025, accounting for 31.7% (33.13% in 2024) of all used tractors imported and registered for the first time in Ireland during that year.

John Deere leapt ahead of Massey Ferguson to take second place with a 17.33% share, up from 16.3% in 2024.

Massey Ferguson slipped into third place with a 16.59% share, up marginally and registering 51 more used tractors.

The John Deere share of used tractor imports continues to grow, clearly at the expense mainly of the Massey Ferguson brand, based on the figures analysed from the FTMTA Statistics Service data.

Other brands in the top 10 brand imports are: Case IH (11.78%), Ford (4.31%), Valtra/Valmet (3.87%), Deutz-Fahr (2.59%), Claas (1.65%), a Fendt (1.31%) and JCB (1.31%).

Drilling down further into the statistics, the New Holland T7.210 clearly remains the market leader as the most popular imported secondhand tractor, followed by the John Deere 6155R/M models.

New Holland

New Holland accounted for eight of the top 10 rankings. Although John Deere was the second most popular imported brand of tractor, it had two models featured in the top 10 rankings, the 6155R/M platform in second and the 6130 model in fourth. Although Massey’s market share declined, it still had three tractor models in the top 10: the 7718, 5455 and the classic 390/390T models.

Others that proved popular as used tractor imports included the John Deere 6215R and 6120M/R alongside the New Holland T5.105 and T5.120, each registering 25 units in 2025.

When the overall ranking is expanded, the New Holland brand accounted for 11 of the top 20 used tractors imported into Ireland in 2025.