if you intend on making a go of it farming you are in a better situation than you think the infrastructure is already in place THAT IS A BIGGGGGGGGG PLUS, take what you have at hand and make it work, gather all the information on farming knowledge from the older generation before it goes to the cemetery and is lost for ever,worst mistake you can make is trying to keep up with with the JONES'S, NEWER IS NOT ALWAYS the answer not that it isn't justifiable but take a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG HARD LOOK AT YOUR SITUATION BEFORE INVESTING IN NEWER,BIGGER,TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED, ETC,newest tractor we own is 20 years old oldest is 70,combine is 30 years old and we don't have anymore down time for the acres harvested than the newer models because it is kept in good repair, the rest of the equip is old too,at any given time there is some minor thing wrong with any of the tractors we run they range from 20 to 140 hp, but on the other hand I can go to any of them right now and use it without any hesitation,out of necessity we do all our own repairs,daddy use to say when repairs exceed the payments on a newer piece of equipment then it was time to consider buying another,he only used 2 tractors an MT jd and a M farmall to cover close to what you're working with the help of swapping and hiring equip and labor during harvest, coarse he still used his M farmall until he died and it's still in use today, but it was always kept in good repair
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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