Where are you getting that diesel is 60 cents more expensive than gasoline? The load of fuel I had delivered a couple months ago #2 off road diesel was $2.56/gallon and 91 octane gasoline was $2.78/gallon. Now that was a couple months ago that I needed gasoline but I had another load of diesel delivered Monday and it was still $2.56. Now even if you’re going by pump price gas, I dont know what it is by you right now but in my part of Michigan it’s averaging about $2.39 for 87 octane so that still only makes diesel 17 cents more.
Now we used to run regular 87 in the gas tractors until our fuel guy turned us on to the 91 octane. It’s non ethanoled and the tractors run 10 times better on it and they use a little less of it so we are willing to pay a little extra for it so that’s the reason for that. Now don’t get me wrong I love running our small tractors but with these crazy late wet springs we’ve been having and the wet falls, time is money and even if they do use a little more fuel I can get 3 times the ground covered running our big diesels. Mother Nature doesn’t wait and days lost to weather is yield lost and grain dry down lost to nothing more than time which is one of the few things you have control of. Now not wanting to knock you for wanting to farm with cool old toys, I enjoy it to, but you are trying increadibly hard to justify it off of fuel economy when that’s only part of the story. The big factor is how much ground you can cover in a day.
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