Were hoping to pick up some more ground in the future, along with switching from 6-36 to 12-30 rows, and we are wanting to upgrade tractors when we do it, to something with a powershift and large enough to handle a 12-30 mounted planter without using lift assist wheels.  Right now our newest tractor is a White 160. Weve been Oliver and White and will stay with AGCO. Were pretty STO but being fairly spread out, irrigation, and running cattle we need to cover acres faster.


This tractor would do most of the row crop work and some of the early field work, spring strip till (eventually), planting, liquid fertilizer, cultivating, and hilling, along with pulling a grain cart in the fall. It will be the "big horse", probably not tons of hours but it will stay busy. We would like it to be around or on top of 200hp but where exactly we dont know for sure


Im sure we want to skip the 6000 series Whites, but Ive always had a bit of a soft spot for the 8000 series, I think its hard to find a better looking tractor than a big framed 8000 with nice paint. But weve had little experiance with them or anything newer.  Should a guy skip the 8000s and go right to the DT series? I know the first ones were just the 8000 Whites painted orange, but were not real familar with the different series (A and Bs and whatever else). Also what is there to watch out for on the different series? We definatly want to stay under $100K probably closer to $75k so that leaves out most or all of the Sisu powered CVT models, which Id love to have, but not in the budget when were planning on basically a whole new equipment line.

Also how do they respond to autosteer, that would be in the future also.   

Thanks