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West central IL | Exactly the point I was trying to make but the usual suspects run it way off track. My philosophy has always been to run as small equipment as possible and put in the extra hours. Almost always buy used, late model equipment I could keep running with occasional fixes. Sure I’ve bought some new stuff. I also have a tractor over 50 years old that I use summer and harvest. Reliability is extremely important here. It’s not Kansas. It rains here. There’s yield to be gained by timely planting. Some Aprils have 15 fit days. Some have 5. Here in central Illinois I don’t want to be wrenching for 3 of those 5. Worse yet I don’t want to be sitting because I have zero idea how to fix it because it’s some computer problem. Which was the point of my post. I have concerns that the equipment industry is only furnishing highly complicated, highly expensive, and for someone with my admittingly limited fixing ability: an impossible machine to get fixed without outside help.
Instead it devolves to idiots talking about farming 500 acres and then heading to the beach. I know exactly one farmer who is like that, but he’s inherited far more than 500 acres. And if he wants to do that, more power to him. Despite a nice starting advantage, it does not appear his operation is going to go on past him. Personally I’ve never been to a Florida beach. I store the vast majority of my own grain and spend most of the winter hauling it in my POS semi. It’s old and worthless, but it’s a cash register for me because knock on wood it just keeps going. | |
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Farm economics from below
