My brother went to a couple auction sales and bought two used JD 14ft. press drills real cheap. He hooked them together on one of his homemade multiple hitches so he could plant a 28ft. wide strip at a time. Press drills had fallen out of favor, although it was well known that they usually produced better yields than the air seeders. His equipment cost was probably 1/10th to 1/20th of what the BTO's were spending. He never financed any equipment so paid no interest. If the soil was soft so the wheel tractor left tracks during seeding, he'd pull the drills with one of the old crawlers so he'd have a smooth field for harvest and a more even stand. And the air seeders had to lay down more seed to get a stand in that soil, so their seed costs were higher.
The grain didn't know nor care whether it was planted with a $200 machine or a $20,000 machine. When he started growing sunflowers, I designed a sunflower harvesting attachment for the combine. We bought less than $200 worth of iron, used a little scrap and made a header attachment that worked as well as the $8000 - $10000 headers the BTO's bought. He used that attachment for about 10 years before he quit sunflowers after the contract price went down.
After he retired, he had no trouble selling his equipment, as long as the multiple hitches that he made went with it!
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