steelguitar - 8/28/2016 12:46
Big Ben - 8/28/2016 14:05
NATSME - 8/28/2016 09:55
If you have high priced machinery remember that the guy next door with a 4440 and a 12 row 7000 planter can plant a LOT of corn and raise a very good crop. .
Again with the 4440.
What difference does it make if both the 4440 and 12 row and my 8130 and 16 row are both paid for? At the end of the day, neither of us have a payment to make, and I can outplant him by 25%.
Depreciation doesn't care if you have a payment or not.
The $100,000 difference in cash outlay could have been invested somewhere else to make the 4440 guy more money somewhere else, especially the difference in the cost of the tractor as that had ZERO impact on yield/revenue....planter could be argued that the newer better planter does a better job so the ROI elsewhere may not be as big a deal on those funds.
Easy fix to over production, that would raise the price of corn
