by "The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
Published 10/05/2017 at 17:39
by "The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
Published 10/05/2017 at 17:39
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The plow behind it might make it closer to $550,000.
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
10/05/2017 at 17:48, STARS: 0
John Deere > Lamborghini
"Nibby" (nibby68)
10/05/2017 at 17:49, STARS: 0
does lambo even make tractors anymore?
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
10/05/2017 at 17:52, STARS: 1
yerp http://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-eu/
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/05/2017 at 17:52, STARS: 0
Is that in USD or Loonies?
"Nibby" (nibby68)
10/05/2017 at 17:55, STARS: 1
oh okay
"vicali" (vicali)
10/05/2017 at 18:20, STARS: 0
There is a crazy business of leasing/financing farm equipment that only farmers know about.. It’s probably almost as stressful as dealing with the weather, timing, crop prices, grasshoppers, seed stock, GMO, chemical companies... etc etc..
"TheD0k_2many toys 2little time" (thed0ck)
10/05/2017 at 18:23, STARS: 1
They are crammed with tech nowdays. Gps drives them in perfect straight lines. I drove an articulating 9000 series a few years ago. It was sweet.
"BaconSandwich is tasty." (baconsandwich)
10/05/2017 at 19:17, STARS: 0
Pfft, and it doesn’t even have tracks at that price?
"DasWauto" (DasWauto)
10/05/2017 at 20:25, STARS: 0
That Lamborghini is just a Deutz in drag. It’s basically the exact same tractor we have on our farm.
I think I’ll tell people we’ve got a Lamborghini instead. Badge engineering ftw.
"DasWauto" (DasWauto)
10/05/2017 at 20:28, STARS: 0
That disc plough is definitely a good bit more than $50,000, almost certainly over $100,000. Shit’s expensive.
That investment (and a lack of available time) is why we don’t work our own land and rent it out to full-time cash croppers instead.
"Tristan" (casselts)
10/05/2017 at 20:34, STARS: 0
We farmed our land with old 2 cylinder John Deeres and only the antiquest of antique equipment up until the late 90s... Since then it’s all been rented. :( I’d give just about anything to go back to farming, but who can afford it?
"DasWauto" (DasWauto)
10/05/2017 at 21:27, STARS: 0
We’re livestock farmers and the year-round nature of our work makes it very difficult to fit crops into our schedule. We can’t dedicate a couple of weeks to the planting and harvest season each year, that time is just not available for us.
Farming is indeed quite expensive these days. You need to have a much bigger operation than was once necessary to survive. I’m happy to have been born and raised on a farm that grew with that trend and we work hard to stay ahead of the game in that sense.
For someone starting out (or getting back in) that scale can definitely be a barrier but it’s not completely impossible. You need to go where land is cheaper (and perhaps less developed) and choose a part of the industry that is less capital intensive.
Avoid anything with quota. Dairy and/or meat goats are an up and coming place to start, sheep are possible as well. Dairy, chicken and turkey farms are all big money to start and not feasible on a small scale, pork is costly on the sow/early wean stage (where we are). Raising pigs from weaning to market size is much less demanding on capital/labour (it is generally possible to have a full time job alongside in this scenario, at least to help get started and until the operation grows bigger and takes more time to manage). Organic croppping is another opportunity which lends itself to a smaller scale, though that remains a niche market and has challenges of its own (getting “certified organic” and all that entails, for example).
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
10/05/2017 at 21:59, STARS: 1
drag is better than not-drag DW
"Tapas" (tapas)
10/05/2017 at 23:53, STARS: 0
Damn ._.
"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
10/06/2017 at 00:07, STARS: 0
One farm around me has 2000 acres, & 2 huge chicken barns. they lease two JD scraper-specials every other year. This year they got a 9620r, & a 9570rx. Seeing them work side x side is amazing. They also got a JD T670 with a 645fd (45ft wide) head for wheat, & a 718c (18 rows) head for corn.
"DasWauto" (DasWauto)
10/06/2017 at 09:07, STARS: 0
We have a reasonable amount of acreage as well but like I said above we don’t really have the time or capital to invest in the equipment necessary to work that profitably. We have good size sow barns which pay the bills and take up the majority of our time.
The operation that plants/harvests our fields works well over 10,000 acres in our area, iirc. They must have at least half a dozen of the biggest articulating JD tractors, all the ploughs, cultivators and planters those can handle, 3 or 4 of the biggest JD combines, if not more, their own fleet of trucks/trailers to haul the harvest to their own large storage facility. It’s a pretty impressive operation, especially considering it’s still one family that owns/runs it.
We’re building another barn and intend to stay focused on what we’re good at. We’ll let someone else deal with the crops and land; the deal we have with those farmers works well for both sides.