I work for what many on here would call a "BTO". Friends talk about us having the nice stuff while they are welfare farming. Then they hear that when we got a new 16 row JD vac planter we put it behind the 15,000 hour 4840.
The key stuff, planters, sprayer, combine, is all newer. The other stuff doesn"t matter so much, as long as it"s reliable. There is one new truck on the place (and the boss" dad says it will be his last truck), I spray thistles with a 16-17 yr old 4-wheeler, the truck I drive most is an 87 F-150 (both my own are 23 years old this year)
Will $3 corn hurt? Yes. Can the bank come take any of it? I don"t think so.
When you can step up to/ need to step up to bigger and newer equipment, be patient and start looking early. Took the boss a year to find the last truck he wanted, at a price that he was willing to pay. When you are a month from planting and need a planter, you have a lot fewer options and usually end up getting the first one that comes along just so you know you"ll have it.
Bigger isn"t always better, either. We are stepping me back down to 12 rows from 16 for next year. The 16 doesn"t match the combine, so my guess rows have to be perfect, and I can"t follow curves very well. I have to stop, back out, turn, and back in to plant my corners. The extra 4 rows doesn"t plant as significant a larger area in a day as the math would say it should.
And after 8 years driving OTR, then some life-altering experiences and a large cross-country move, I learned that good friends are hard to come by, but those who are your friend when you are helping them, or need your help, are a nickel a dozen. "Dime a dozen" rolls off the tongue better but they would be way overpriced at that rate.
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