Back in the day a full time farmer could farm 200 acres with 3 tractors of about 30-50 hp each.
Today everyone has a real job and farms 200-1200 acres, and has a 200-400 hp big tractor, and several 100-200hp tractors to get it all done around the real job. Time is money.
The full time farmers are getting to be the 2000-10,000 acre setups and manage people who drive the tractors for them, 400-500 hp a piece.
So, where are you at.......
100 acre corn and soybean farm with a little hay, you would want a 100hp tractor and a 40-60hp tractor to deal with all the hay stuff, tillage, planting, hauling, angering, etc.
Brand dont matter. Its sure nice to have a mechanic that works on them near, and a store that handles parts for your color tractor within an hour of you.
You want more modern features, live pto and lots of gears to choose, good hydraulics.
You can get by with less, again back in the day 200-400 acre farms were run well with 50hp tractors, but you will spend all day every day doing it, and with modern yields and equipment you will sure be hustling to keep up in harvest time!
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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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