Posted by greenbeanman in Kansas on July 09, 2010 at 07:35:24 from (99.60.133.120):
In Reply to: Tractor Inflation posted by GaryinKS on July 08, 2010 at 20:31:16:
One needs to remember that back in the day of the H and the M ---- in western Kansas fertilizer wasn't yet being used. Tough to inflate to todays prices when it wasn't even used but would be needed today.
What might surprise you is to look at old Kansas Ag Census records from earlier years. You'd be surprised at the size of farms in 1925. Also that few had tractors yet, while some had more than one but not in proportion to their farm size.
That year was no doubt ushering in the dirty thirties and the yields for corn and wheat were quite low.
There is also somewhat of a different attitude on farming than years ago. There used to be a balance of number of weeds growing versus the loss of moisture from a tillage operation. Currently farmers tend to want fields 100% clean all of the time which might mean more needed tractor capacity.
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