Central Western VA Mountains | We’ve been wrestling with a knotter issue on our JD square baler and it’s not good when hay is on the ground and you can’t make a square!
We’re OK as we can always drag out the 60 year old New Holland model 68 and finish what the JD348 can’t...
But it got me thinking, especially back in the day -
How many farmers (with their best foot forward), bought a new tractor or expensive piece of equipment that took them to the financial edge, failed and forced the farmer out of business.
Just curius if anyone knew a farmer that was forced out of farming due to a piece of new/new-ish/expensive - but crap tractor/equipment and what was it?
I have a friend whose family was in dairy, got themselves in debt with harvestore silo(s), I think they had issues with them and then their market turned south and the farm was sold. My impression is had they not had debt and had the silos worked as advertised, they could have rode out the storm. That’s been a long time ago, my memory is somewhat fuzzy, but that’s what I remember.
Thanks! |
The Tractor or Piece of Equipment That Broke The Farm
