In the late 90's the neighbor to my grandpa's farm was using two McCormick F-12 style tractors to run 65 acres of grain. They'd been in his family probably since they were somewhat newer. Think, even if they'd bought them when they were twenty years old they would've been using them for 40+ years at that point. His dad had farmed part-time and he took over in addition to teaching. He is a little eccentric, and is probably in his late 80's now. I don't think that he is farming now, but I believe he still has the equipment and mows with them occasionally. He was always single, and he gave the land for free to a younger family friend, keeping just the house and yard. As of 1998 he was running 65 acres with the two farmall f-12 styles, one with rubber and one with steel, an ancient 2 row planter and a pull type combine from the early 50's. He would row crop beans and his combine would plug and mess up, so he ran 1 or 2 rows at a time. He hauled all his grain to the elevator in a normal pickup truck bed, and used mounted cultivators and non raising disks. Whatever he used to have to combine corn had broken down in the mid 1980's, and Grandpa told me that he had been continous cropping soybeans for 15 years. They weren't hybrid seed beans, he'd just save some and replant the next year. He was probably getting less than 10 bushels/acre. With no inputs except fuel. Like I said, a little eccentric.
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