Re: Re: Re: How to haul a H series Farmall?

Posted by Randy in NE on November 26, 2003 at 07:56:42 from (216.58.237.20):

In Reply to: Re: Re: How to haul a H series Farmall? posted by spartan396 on November 26, 2003 at 06:41:23:

I grew up on a farm in northeast Nebraska. I would love to be able to get back into farming. The problem is it takes 1000+ acres to make a living. This is if Mother Nature cooperates. The amount of money it takes to buy equipment big enough to farm this much land makes a person's head spin. Most of the people today are not willing to put in the long hours to farm with smaller equipment. We farmed 240 acres with a Farmall H and a Case 300. The case pulled 2-16" plow. Take my word for it that it takes a long time to plow 40 acres like this. I thought it was great getting to stay home from school for a day and plow from 6:00 am to about 6-8:00 pm. With today's minimum tillage you don't see as many people plowing but if you can't pull a 20-25' tandem disk at 6-8 mph then it is taking too long. When you figure in all of the costs to raise a crop the farmers are not making very much per hour. It is easier to go to town and work for $10-30/hour. You do find some young people willing to "weekend" farm but there aren't enough of them. Today's kids are too used to "easy street". Just my observation. P.S. A couple of years ago when my Enron stock was doing good and I was planning on retiring I had planned on buying to the old farm back and putz around and farm for the fun of it. That is a far off dream now.

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