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Commitments and Contingencies
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Leases

    Lease payment amounts for operating and finance leases with remaining terms greater than one year as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022 were as follows (in millions):
September 30, 2023December 31, 2022
Operating Leases(1)
Finance Leases
Operating Leases(1)
Finance Leases
2023$13.8 $0.2 $47.8 $0.8 
202447.8 0.7 36.6 0.6 
202537.7 0.6 27.0 0.4 
202628.0 0.4 19.1 0.2 
202717.4 0.4 13.4 0.2 
Thereafter59.4 5.6 51.2 6.0 
Total lease payments204.1 7.9 195.1 8.2 
Less: imputed interest(2)
(33.0)(2.1)(27.5)(2.1)
Present value of leased liabilities$171.1 $5.8 $167.6 $6.1 
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(1) Operating lease payments include options to extend or terminate at the Company's sole discretion, which are included in the determination of lease term when they are reasonably certain to be exercised.
(2) Calculated for each lease using either the implicit interest rate or the incremental borrowing rate when the implicit interest rate is not readily available.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

Guarantees

    The Company maintains a remarketing agreement with its U.S. finance joint venture, AGCO Finance LLC, whereby the Company is obligated to repurchase up to $6.0 million of repossessed equipment each calendar year. The Company believes that any losses that it might incur on the resale of this equipment will not be material, due to the fair value of the underlying equipment.

    At September 30, 2023, the Company had outstanding guarantees issued to its Argentine finance joint venture, AGCO Capital Argentina S.A. (“AGCO Capital”) of approximately $36.6 million. Such guarantees generally obligate the Company to repay outstanding finance obligations owed to AGCO Capital if end users default on such loans to the extent that, due to non-Credit Risk, the end users are not able, or not required, to pay their loans, or are required to pay in a different currency than the one agreed in their loan. The Company also has obligations to guarantee indebtedness owed to certain of its finance joint ventures if dealers or end users default on loans. Losses under such guarantees historically have been insignificant, and the guarantees are not material. The Company believes the credit risk associated with these guarantees is not material.

    In addition, at September 30, 2023, the Company had accrued approximately $14.7 million of outstanding guarantees of residual values that may be owed to its finance joint ventures in the United States and Canada due upon expiration of certain eligible operating leases between the finance joint ventures and end users. The maximum potential amount of future payments under these guarantees is approximately $185.0 million.

Other

    At September 30, 2023, the Company had outstanding designated and non-designated foreign exchange contracts with a gross notional amount of approximately $5,305.5 million. The outstanding contracts as of September 30, 2023 range in maturity through December 2023. The Company also had outstanding designated steel commodity contracts with a gross notional amount of approximately $0.4 million that range in maturity through November 2023.
    The Company sells a majority of its wholesale receivables in North America, Europe and Brazil to its U.S., Canadian, European and Brazilian finance joint ventures. The Company also sells certain accounts receivable under factoring arrangements to financial institutions around the world. The Company accounts for the sale of such receivables as off-balance sheet transactions. Refer to Note 15 for discussion of the Company’s accounts receivable sales agreements.

Contingencies
    In 2008 and 2012, as part of routine audits, the Brazilian taxing authorities disallowed deductions relating to the amortization of certain goodwill recognized in connection with a reorganization of the Company’s Brazilian operations and the related transfer of certain assets to the Company’s Brazilian subsidiaries. See Note 12 for the discussion of the Company's resolution of the disputed deductions under a tax amnesty program.

    During 2017, the Company purchased Precision Planting, which provides precision agricultural technology solutions. In 2018, Deere & Company (“Deere”) filed separate complaints in the U.S. District Court of Delaware against the Company and Precision Planting alleging that certain products of those entities infringed certain patents of Deere. The two complaints subsequently were consolidated into a single case, Case No. 1:18-cv-00827-CFC. In July 2022, the case was tried before a jury, which determined that the Company and Precision Planting had not infringed the Deere patents. Following customary post-trial procedures, the Court entered a judgement in the Company’s favor, and Deere appealed the judgment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The parties currently are briefing of the appeal. The Company has an indemnity right under the purchase agreement related to the acquisition of Precision Planting from its previous owner. Pursuant to that right, the previous owner of Precision Planting currently is responsible for the litigation costs associated with the complaint and is obligated to reimburse AGCO for some or all of the damages in the event of an adverse outcome in the litigation.

    The Company is a party to various other legal claims and actions incidental to its business. The Company believes that none of these claims or actions, either individually or in the aggregate, are material to its business or financial statements as a whole, including its results of operations and financial condition.