Mark (EC,IN ) - 11/13/2024 12:30 SteveMn - 11/13/2024 11:59 Heated / air conditioner cabs, ability to go all day or night in comfort instead of plowing with a stocking hat and five jackets. Once you can do that, then pick up another quarter / farm. In some areas no till, less time working ground and thus more time to run more acres. In my area getting away from plowing corn stalks which takes forever, and using a disc ripper. Your post reminded me of a neighbor who always said if there had been a law banning headlights on tractors we could have avoided a lot of this. Did you know my dad? ;-) He said sort of said that. Said lights on tractors were the beginning of farmers covering more acres. Reading through the posts I think you could combine a lot of them to come to the truth. How many remember all the ag magazines saying you had to get bigger to survive. My health insurance was a few hundred dollars when I first got it. As to constantly repairing machinery, last time I was at the dealership their bays were full of new stuff being repaired. Then too property taxes are triple what they were when I started. Less net income per acre, more regulation. | 
So what caused this?
