Let me give a little history on myself...I'm 52, my dad was a Deere dealer and I was working on them by the time I was 13...Dad died when I was 20 and we had to sell the dealership...My first job out of college was with John Deere...Started as a Service Training Instructor, got promoted to Area Service Manager in Virginia and them promoted to Territory Manager in NC and later in GA....I stayed with them for 13 years, until the wife got tired of all the travel and her dad passed so we needed to come back to NC...

I taught the first service school on the John Deere 23 and 27 hp tractors, the 850 and 950, these are about the same size as the Kubota you are looking at...Guess who makes these tractors???

Yanmar Tractor, located in Japan.....

These are very good tractors, but frankly they are no better than a Kubota...

I would check out dealers in your area and see who carries the equipment that you want and take a peek at their Service Dept, sooner or later they will all break down....Price these units with the same equipment needed and see who gives you the better deal also, check out the finance program if you plan to finance...

Now, if you are talking a tractor for the farm, that is 120-180hp, I would take the Deere, hands down, I'm not sure what their market share is currently, but it used to be about 70%, in that size farm tractor...That's why you don't see International Harvester anymore, they got bought by Case back in the mid-80s...

Now...Deere has 3 different type dealers...Industrial, that carry bulldozers, backhoes, skidders, etc...Farm equipment that carry not only farm equipment but lawn and garden (including the smaller Yanmar tractors) and then Lawn and Garden....As a general rule, the Farm equipment dealers will have the better parts selection and mechanics that have more experience working on diesels than the Lawn and Garden dealers....

Finally, one advantage to Deere is that any parts ordered by 2:00pm today will be shipped overnight and in the dealer's hands the next morning...This is true for all 3 types of dealers...They run trucks overnight from the main parts depot in Moline to the sales branches (Atlanta for us) and then to the dealership...Since Deere sells so much equipment of all types they can afford to do this...I don't know how Kubota is set up for parts shipments....

Good Luck...