mg2361
Senior Member
Look what Deere posted on YouTube this month.
My farming grandparents only made a profit 1 year out of 30. I can see the cost of this or a major breakdown/repair putting most farmers in the red.Looks like about $4,500 to get into it, and $2,500 per year thereafter to maintain.
My farming grandparents only made a profit 1 year out of 30. I can see the cost of this or a major breakdown/repair putting most farmers in the red.
One or two service calls can justify that cost.
I was thinking that most farmers today wouldn't think that's too expensive. But the big farmers today are using $500,000 combines and $250,000 tractors and a head for the combine is $150,000. A iowa farmer sitting on 1,000 acres of paid for ground at $10,000 a acre evaluation, has a couple coins to jingle together.
The wheat farms in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana start at 1,000 acres. The big farms in the northwest trade the iron in every third year for another.
It's easy to be frivolous on someone else's dime.