I'm a fulltime farmer. Not talking much because I've been in the field with the 510 Massey combine and tractor and wagons.
I know it would be spendy to get started in farming if Dad didn't have the equipment, and if not then I'd have to do what he did. His 510s were brought home for $2000 at the max (all that I was there to watch anyway) and so I'd be looking to start up under a local farmer's supervision with a shoestring startup budget:
$1100 Massy 510 combine and heads $1800 Farmall 560 $225 65 foot grain auger (sudenga) $3100 John Deere 7000 planter $10 100gallon water tank on wheels $50 30-foot spray boom $700 200-bushel wagon
That would get you started for very little (a little over $7000) in machinery costs if someone was willing to let you play on their land or you could lease cheap. All those prices are actual prices. You'd have to learn to service your equipment and operating it would take a lot of time, this isn't a plant-one-day, harvest-one-day arrangement. Also I listed a dealer price on the planter not a consignment price for some beat up machine because especially when getting started you will want a decent planter, if it's not in the ground it won't grow and hands down our JD7000 is the best planter we've had!
You'd need to plant it, spray it, and harvest it for sure. I'm ignoring tillage for now because there's too many variables. You'll need to store it somewhere so I'm assuming there's a bin or a building to put it in. You don't have to spend a lot on lumber to beef up a garage if it has a cement floor under it.
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