I think the biggest changes were brought about by federal changes in farm labor pay and fuel prices. Late 60's and early 70's farmers said "anyone with a tractor over 100HP was showing off". They may have had 3 tractor or more running 90 HP but labor was cheap! My BIL's father had an 826 and 3 560's. He would plow with him on one tractor, BIL on another and a 3rd being run by a hired operator. When labor rates went up he went to bigger tractors and stopped hiring help. He went to round bales for the same reason. Another decision was based on fuel prices. You could till more acres with less fuel. A friend has a smaller Stiger. When he was chisel plowing with his 1586 he was using about 2.2 gallons an acre.....the Stiger burns about 1.4 per acre. Fuel prices also spurred the change over to no/low till and using chemicals.
Those changes triggered several things too. Smaller older farmers quitting which made more land available to the bigger guys and as tractors got bigger and tillage requirements got less one person could could farm a lot more acres That triggered the demand for bigger harvesting equipment.
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