Acres is not necessarily the defining factor although it indirectly is. Many guys are BTO's on limited acreage but they are usually into specialty crops. Traditional row croppers will likely have large acreage and livestock to be BTO's.
Relly, It is all about cash flow generated or more importantly profit generated from your farming enterprise. How long can you finance a new $100k tractor for (5 years, 7 years, 8 years).
To make the math easy lets say 5 years. Well your enterprise would have to make $20k profit plus whatever you need to need to live on just to pay for the tractor (assuming you do not work a 2nd full time job) and that assumes you got a zero percent interest loan which is unlikely.
As you add more expensive equipment like say a brand new $400k combine then both the cashflow and the profit better go up or else you will eventually be one of those guys the bank sells out.
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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