Could be just my opinion , but I think the equipment makers are really only trying to build equipment for the largest scale grain/corn farmers . The combines, swathers , and planting equipment is all so large now , and you need to have several thousand acres to plant/harvest each year to justify owning this size equipment . And grain loss monitors , and such can be the difference between profit and loss . A one bushel per acre loss on 4,000 acres @ $4.00 per bushel is $16,000.00 , but if you are only harvesting 100 acres , and loose a bushel per acre , so you are out $400.00. Doesn't seem to me like $400,00 would go far buying or fixing , a monitor , but it is worth the cost on the lager scale example . And all of these new ideas are always based on the largest scale operations to show how they can justify the cost benefit. More money can be made selling a few really big combines that selling a lot of smaller units, and if you short the market , the price goes up. With really only three or four manufacturers building combines in North America , They will build the combines that will give them the greatest return on investment . Same goes for many other types of equipment related to row crop farming . I feel we have better choice in forage equipment , because of the European competition in these markets, and many more units are built . So there is little room in the cost for fancy gadgets.
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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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