Posted by BIG RUH on September 30, 2014 at 08:10:31 from (184.20.246.196):
I was looking at my FFA corn work book last night. Price of seed corn, Pioneer 3369A, $33 a bushel. Gas 20 cents a gallon, Everything was cultivated, no herbicides, anhydrous was just becoming popular to use, but I didn't. Fertilizer cost $45 a ton. Cost of average size new tractor, &7,000. Farm ground was selling for $1,000 - 1,500 an acre Sold corn that year for $1.07 a bushel. Now, seed corn $240 for 40 pound bag,diesel fuel $3.89 a gallon, Cost of Herbicides and anhydrous, fertilizer $800 a ton. Cost of a new tractor $150,000+ Farm ground 5K-7K an acre. Price of corn, $2.63 a bushel. Really shows how much more efficient the farmers are now compared to then
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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