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North Central Indiana | 1000 with no debt is the obvious choice imo… assuming 50/50 corn and beans the 85% revenue protection here would guarantee $360k on 180 bu corn plus another $225k on the bean acres at 50 bu beans. Our 5 year rolling yields are 224 on corn and 64 on beans. Could get a crop planted and harvested with inputs and fuel and insurance for $400 an acre easy with no debt to service or rent payments. That leaves income at $180k/year. Not a bad life. Guess it depends on what equipment you’re assuming for the 1000 acres. If I could choose I’d go with an 8345R, a 12 row striptill bar, a 12/24 1790 upgraded to hydraulic downforce and electric drive, a low houred 9770 with a 12 row corn head and 35ft draper, and a 1000 bushel grain cart. Maybe give me a decent VT tool to pull with that tractor. And because I’m pampered I’d want a self propelled sprayer with 90 foot booms.
More realistically I’d go back in time and not sell our JD 8560 and I would have kept an old JD 726 mulch finisher that it could pull to work bean stubble before corn in the spring, and I’d have a 40 foot anhydrous bar, a 16/32 1790, a 9670 combine with 8 row head and 30 foot platform, no grain cart. And a 4430 to spread dry fert and to pull an 80 ft sprayer. Close to home with two decent wagons on the 4430 and a single axle semi with a 34’ hopper and my wife and I would have the time of our lives. Obviously I’m a green guy, but the same system would work in any color you’re familiar with | |
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