Agreed. That has been the whole point of bigger and more productive equipment since the internal combustion engine came to the farm. Used to be cheap to have more kids for farm help - now kids are expensive. You also used to be able to hire cheap labor from ranks of the unemployed - today anyone that you can hire temporarily probably isn't anyone you want operating expensive equipment or relying on to do a professional job. My younger brother covers well over a 1000 acres of row crop and probably twice that in hay ground every year - just him and a 15 year old son. When I was a kid that would have been a pipe dream to do something like that and be good at it. He does it all primarily with two field tractors and a loader tractor. Grain and hay get moved by the semi load and he puts in 20 hours days combining - he catches naps in the cab while the combine uses GPS to go down the rows. He wishes the trucks could at least self drive while waiting in line at the elevator so his son could drop off a truck in line and jump in the one that got unloaded while in the field.
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