Those are the gas prices at the pump in Quincy, Michigan. I'm using pump prices as a comparison only.
You're absolutely right that the bigger tractors get the job done in bigger fields, but I don't have bigger fields. My largest field is 7 /2 acres. Farming that wth a modern tractor is not remotely realistic. I could never pay for a $20,000 tractor with the 20 acres I'm farming. I can pay for a $3,000 D. As for speed, I borrow my dad's 4040 and his discbine to mow that field or I mow it with my JD D and my No 5 mower. You know what? It takes the same amount of time with either unit. That discbine cannot be run to its potential in that little field, and it takes a good deal longer to get ready and power wash when I'm done. How much ground you can cover really doesn't come into the equation for the tiny farmer like I am..
I'm a full time blacksmith and part time farmer. I don't ever intend to get big. Even if the fantasy of farming the family place becomes a reality, that's only 500 acres--still well within the 2 cylinder size, as my dad has shown for years.
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