Kioti tractors

Kioti is the American name for Daedong, a Korean farm machinery maker founded in 1947 in Jinju, which brought its first Kioti compact to the US in 1986 and is marking 40 years here in 2026. The tractors are built in Korea and sold by Daedong-USA from Wendell, North Carolina through more than 500 dealers. Daedong also builds Bobcat's CT compacts, so a white Bobcat and an orange Kioti of the same size are often one chassis with different loaders, warranties and prices.

Kioti's sub-compact is the CS, and the CS30 line includes the CS2530HC, launched as the industry's first sub-compact with a factory climate-controlled cab; open-station CS2230 and CS2530 builds followed in March 2026. CX2510 is the largest sub-compact frame. CK, the volume compact, now has two tiers: the 20 models (CK2620, CK3520, CK4020) and the CK40 series (CK2640, CK3540, CK4040), launched in May 2026 with a 10.25 in color display, Stage V engines and room to keep loader, mid-mower and backhoe mounted at once. DK, NS and NX cover 40 to 60 hp on progressively heavier frames, RX is the first four-cylinder, and the HX9010 is a 90 hp utility tractor.

For non-commercial use every series gets 24 months of basic cover with no hour limit, and CS, CX, CK, DK, NS and NX carry 72 months of powertrain cover, also with no hour cap; RX and HX get 48 months. For someone who mows or plows through long seasons, the missing hour limit is the clearest difference from Deere and Kubota.

Owner discussions make the case in loader numbers and money. Shoppers arrive from a Kubota quote, find the Kioti lifts more at the pin for less, and buy on long zero-percent terms, though street prices swing widely between dealers. The complaints cluster in the first hours: hydraulic leaks at delivery, electrical faults and loader arms out of level from the dealer, plus parts waits on the larger NS and NX models. Several owners say they picked the dealer before the tractor.