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Equipment in the future.....???

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Ron

02-06-2003 05:55:43

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What will the next generation use to get started in farming.?? All the older small-farm sized equipment will be LONG GONE....!!!! Is anyone thinking of restoring equipment (and stockpiling parts) for a future generation.??? Look at sales.....drill are $10.oo.... Old combines are scrap-price...etc, etc.... No young farmers can start out with Millions of $$$$ of equipment.... Anyone have any thoughts on this subject.????

Ron.

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paul

02-07-2003 06:06:40

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Re: Equipment in the future.....??? in reply to Ron, 02-06-2003 05:55:43

EPA & DNR will move farming to Brazil be4 the next generation can farm.

Greenpeace is handing out fliers in Europe telling people to consume Brazilian soybeans because they are non-GMO.

Think about that. First of all, Brazilians are brown-bagging a lot of RR soybeans, so it's not true to begin with.

Then, wasn't Greenpeace all worried about deforesting the Amozon a decade ago? And now we should abandon USA farms & expand soybean acres in Brazil?

Seems everyone has an agenda against farmers in the USA.

EPA is going to outlaw 2-stroke engines. Can't imagine them allowing old (or new) farm equipment to run either.

Can't have any livestock, can't use manure. Greenpeace doesn't want commercial fertilizers. Duh?

No chemical use, no GMO, and tillage only creates erosion, so no tillage. Doh? Anyone heard of weeds?

What could they farm, what could they use to farm with????

--->Paul

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kydavid

02-06-2003 18:40:16

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Re: Equipment in the future.....??? in reply to Ron, 02-06-2003 05:55:43

Tom A says it well. Just as I started out renting my dad's equip and then buying old rusted junk my son will be able to do the same (if that's what he wasnts to do). First tractor I "owned" was a 560 Long, got it for $1800. Plus, like it or not, there are fewer and fewer of us left (and it takes fewer of us to produce the same amount). A lot more worried about him finding acres to farm and not having "big brother" telling him he has to protect the snails or have a license to spread manure.

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David Berger

02-11-2003 18:22:37

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Re: Re: Equipment in the future.....??? in reply to kydavid, 02-06-2003 18:40:16

I'm more worried about farmers not having enough money to stay in buisness.Seems like folks cant make a living off of it anymore.2 dollars a bushel for corn just dosen't cut it nowadays.
soybeans used to be 8 and 9 dollars a bushel in the 70's,and now they are down to 4 to 5.90 here in ohio.I think they need some government aid or something to help keep farms going.

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rank M.

02-07-2003 17:42:53

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Re: Re: Equipment in the future.....??? in reply to kydavid, 02-06-2003 18:40:16

The polticians spread plenty of manure without a licnse.

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Tom A

02-06-2003 07:15:46

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Re: Equipment in the future.....??? in reply to Ron, 02-06-2003 05:55:43

My 2 cents:

1. I see several small companies advertising in various small farm magazines making equipment for "the little guy." I don't know about quality as I've not seen any of it close up, but seems they've been advertising for several years now so somebody has to be buying it. 50 and 100 years ago, today's big multi-national companies were little local or regional companies too, so I gotta think some of today's little ones will survive.

2. Today's $500,000 piece of equipment will be outdated, unwanted $10 scrap in 10 or 20 years. Like my own 40-50 year old equipment, some new farmer will be able to pick it up at a farm auction and get started with it.

As much as we miss the old stuff of our youth, our grandfathers missed their old stuff. I've got an old friend who bemoans the loss of horse farming, and there's few folks around who would like to go back to that! So I think there will be equipment around.

My concern for future farmers is more basic: where is the land going to be??? Right now they're paving over everything that doesn't move where I am.

Tom A

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