EFV, I enjoy the varied advice here, but yours is probably the most valuable! :)
My answer is as a corn and soybean farmer trying to fit about that much acreage in the short summers of Minnesota, between the all too frequent rain storms here. When you get a chance to go you gotta go double time, and get the job done before the next rain. Winter is always coming soon here, no time to wait things out,
With the varied and unusual crops mentioned, and 400 acres, that is an interesting question, I probably would end up being that voice over the shoulder saying well you can’t do that, and you need to do this.... but I wonder what the location and markets are for the original poster and the crops mentioned. I think here potatoes are mostly a contract crop, you sure wouldn’t plant 200 acres of them and then see what happens come fall.....
But 400 acres is a good chunk of land, my crops you invest close to $1000 an acre in the hopes to get a little over $1000 an acre return. Do it wrong and you have messed up a lot of money in one year. Taxes alone here would be $16,000+ a year on 400 acres, one doesn’t have the luxury to screw up too much or you go in the hole real quick.
Those older Oliver and White tractors are good machines, I’d hate to see you give it up and not find something like it again for a long time if you find you do need it.
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