Posted 12/7/2025 10:02 (#11460451 - in reply to #11460111) Subject: RE: Farm economics wouldn’t be quite so daunting if…
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Kooiker - 12/6/2025 22:48
Hick - 12/6/2025 16:30 You can buy a 4440 pretty reasonable, not hard to get a lot done with a pair of them. Margins are the problem. If a 500 acre farmer and a 5000 acre farmer both make $50 an acre, one can’t feed his family.
The guys that want to farm 5000 acres for a thin margin are the reason farmers are always fighting for a thin margin.
Back that up with some facts, or numbers, or something.
I think the reason some farm 5000 acres is they are good at what they do and have foresight and want the farm to stay viable.