Yep. Like the Amish have a great market on 1900 turn of the century discs and harrows. I understand why it might be nice to have a tractor guided by GPS, but why pay half a million bucks for that tractor when you can do your own seeding with a used tractor with no GPS and still get the same production? If it were me starting out as a farmer I'd go to autions and purchase all the 1950's tractors and combines I needed to plant and harvest my crops. Sure I might have to make a few more passes in the fields because my headers isn't 100' across, but I'd still get all the crops in. Then my profits would be higher because I wouldn't have to be paying a larger mortgage on a $.5M combine. I guess some farmers want the latest and greatest. I'd be happy with having enough money set aside after the selling of the crops to keep my family fed and a roof over their heads.
Yep. Like the Amish have a great market on 1900 turn of the century discs and harrows. I understand why it might be nice to have a tractor guided by GPS, but why pay half a million bucks for that tractor when you can do your own seeding with a used tractor with no GPS and still get the same production? If it were me starting out as a farmer I'd go to autions and purchase all the 1950's tractors and combines I needed to plant and harvest my crops. Sure I might have to make a few more passes in the fields because my headers isn't 100' across, but I'd still get all the crops in. Then my profits would be higher because I wouldn't have to be paying a larger mortgage on a $.5M combine. I guess some farmers want the latest and greatest. I'd be happy with having enough money set aside after the selling of the crops to keep my family fed and a roof over their heads.
My grandfather was a farmer his whole life. He never owned a tractor. He plowed every inch with a mule. He wasn't Amish.
You could plow a small field with that donkey AOC.