Re: the wonderful 50's 60's, questions for all

Posted by big jt on September 18, 2004 at 00:04:39 from (206.72.54.246):

In Reply to: the wonderful 50's 60's, questions for all posted by caleb on September 17, 2004 at 16:36:18:

Congratulations on your pursuit and also the pending nuptuals.

I am assuming that you are intending to farm a very small acreage.

The first thing I would ask about is do you have the real estate for your operation. In my area (NW IA) this would be by far the most difficult thing to lock in unless you are made of money. Recently a 40 Acre piece with a $40000 building brought $5025/A in my area. There was no housing development value here. I am sure values are different in your are but renting is immposible here unless you have a history.

Enough of that rant. Personally I would suggest trying to get the crop custom harvested and delaying the combine purchase. Talk with the neighbors about this. Remember when you harvest you will also need to get the grain to town or the bin somehow this means wagons or truck also and these would be provided by a custom cutter. The neighbors should be able to either provide good suggestions here or maybe you could hire one of them to do this.

I would suggest at bare minimum you will need a tractor, planter, some sort of primary and secondary tillage implement and a row cultivator. For the day the JD 494A was hard to beat. For tillage I would suggest a disk for starters. These can do both primary tillage (fall after harvest) and secondary tillage (before the planter) satisfactoraly. I think the JD BW would fit this bill.

The jobs done by these implements would be tough to hire done as opposed to the harvesting which should be fairly easy to get hired out.

You will probably need to have some sort of chemical weed control program. I would suggest that you definatly hire this one out along with the fertilizer. Your local elevator or agronamy supplier should be able to help you here. I wouldn't even think of doing this yourself as most chemicals require licensing to purchase. I do my own chem application but I am in this game to make a living.

One real big advantage you will have is that after you purchase your tractor you will mostly be competing against the iron buyers so you should be able to get most of your implements fairly reasonable.

HTH

jt

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