@gavin_spoor I’ve always wondered who’s buying these small combines new? Guessing even a small one is 300k, I’d rather buy a used class 7 or 8 for half the price.
@JFKFarms Within the last 5 years we’ve lost about 500 rented acres, one parcel we farmed for 60 years and the other was 30+. All went to the highest bidder
@BeetfarmerDave This thread has been helpful, we’ve never lived on the farm but only even been a couple miles away. I am looking to get out of the farmstead I rent and have always wanted to be on the farm but I’m starting to realize getting a house on the farm is more then I thought
Farmers: I can’t make any money because crop prices are low
John Deere: Behold our 400hp mfwd tractor, it does the same thing your tractor has done for the last 25 years for a $1,000,000
@ISchmidtFaced Could be worse could get stuck behind a live bottom, got one guy that comes to Verona that hauls with one and it drives my dad nuts he always gets stuck behind him