New Equipment

[SASKFARMER3]

There are always options and solutions.

With the fed election, who or which party would be first to offer or revive the " investment tax credit"?

[SASKFARMER3]

New quad is $727,000.00 just not going to play.

[furrowtickler]

LOL - you said that last year, bad flooded crops, way too much to trade....
you will fall for a new one later this fall - it's in your blood.

[farmaholic]

$F3, was that a typo? Not going to "play" or "pay" or ""its" not going to pay". (Any grammar police know if I can put quotation marks inside quotation marks?)

What I find ironic is alot of people can't save in a life time what some people spend to put a crop in the ground for one year, what is even more disturbing is if its all your own money. Now throw in the price of iron and land. Whew, kinda takes your breath away!!!

[furrowtickler]

As well there are some million dollar seeding outfits - that will not get an extra bus/ac 9 times outa 10. JMO, See it first hand year after year.
All the tech in the world is useless if mother nature poops on your parade - including big expensive iron , variable rate, 100% of the fanciest fert at or before seeding. Its a fact of life that gets lost at trade shows all winter long...

[fjlip]

Biggest cost to all farmers is DEPRECIATION, the more iron the bigger the $$$. Do the math. F*ck all pays for the loss in value we are eating. Trading often makes it worse, ya auctions love our stupidity.

[SASKFARMER3]

Boys I trade if it' works right. Paying 30% more doesn't work!

[farmaholic]

They may just see it your way yet!!

[freewheat]

I wonder how new stuff will work in 20 years? Will the gadgetry hold together? Honestly, is this new stuff well built? I ask, cuz I frankly have no idea.

That is a lot of cash for some of that stuff. Crazy!

SHHHHH, listen. You hear that rumble? My dad and his parents are rolling in their graves.

[freewheat]

I wonder how new stuff will work in 20 years? Will the gadgetry hold together? Honestly, is this new stuff well built? I ask, cuz I frankly have no idea.

That is a lot of cash for some of that stuff. Crazy!

SHHHHH, listen. You hear that rumble? My dad and his parents are rolling in their graves.

[furrowtickler]

Lol - I would not get stuck up on % , 30% of $300,000 is a lot diff thatn $600,000 . That line was crossed a long time ago regardless of farm size.

[hobbyfrmr]

All my tractors are 30 years old and the combine is 21 years old. When I buy them, there is no depreciation left! There is a fuel gauge, engine temperature gauge, oil pressure gauge, some idiot lights that could/would/should work! I have been quite lucky with them so far. Naturally some repairs involved, usually at the worst time. I really don't farm that much so it works out the best it can. If those new prices are realistic, its going to take a lot of acres to run over in order to make the payments, so be prepared to farm more. When I do make some profit, usually I waste that money on my wife and children.