If you are going to produce hay off of 40 acres do a little math. You ought to get at least 3 tons per acre, dry land farming. You should be able to sell it at upwards of 80 dollars. That's about ten grand gross sales. For one year. Any good piece of equipment should last you 15 plus years. You can depreciate it on your IRS if you buy good modern equipment. Buy the right stuff the FIRST time. Don't be penny wise and pound foolish. Get a good 75 hp tractor with live pto,(an 886 would be a fine machine) a good haybine. The decide if need round bales or squares. You can pick up a fairly modern NH 273 0r 275 for about 1500 dollars and it will do the small squares fine. Figure 20k for all three, tractor, haybine and baler.. Stay away from those old chain round balers. Get a bank loan if you have to , but if you are going to do this for profit, get the right equipment. If not, just rent the land out and watch how the renter does it. He won't be piddling around there for 2-3 days putting up sm sq bales, he raked with a side delivery! If you try to do this with a 1200 dollarH, a 500 dollar antique baler, and some junk for a rake and mower, you will end up with a lot of rained on, non crimped, dried up, worthless hay.
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