Question: Is a combine cheaper in 2017 than in 1981?

[bucket]

Bought a brand new jd 9500 with a pickup header for 155200 in 1997....


Kept it for 14 crops....simple reliable.... not a high tech machine but an improvement over a 7720 and 7721 at the time....

Affordability starts with the purchase price but ends with reliability. ....today's combines don't hold a candle to what was available back then...

Machines today are made for a three year life cycle it seems and they get traded or needing a rebuild. ...why?

[tweety]

Hamloc, you're just saying stuff, but makes no economical sense for the original question.

So, if we can agree its twice as fast the combine should cost 562,000 ish.

Seems pretty much a wash, although the whining is also increasing at the same rate as inflation since 1981. OMFG, give it a rest - no one cares about your money problems you made for yourself so STFU about them.

Farming is a profitable, stable career, always has been, always will be.

[Hamloc]

Hamloc, you're just saying stuff, but makes no economical sense for the original question.

So, if we can agree its twice as fast the combine should cost 562,000 ish.

Seems pretty much a wash, although the whining is also increasing at the same rate as inflation since 1981. OMFG, give it a rest - no one cares about your money problems you made for yourself so STFU about them.

Farming is a profitable, stable career, always has been, always will be.

Actually Tweety I don't have any money problems. My combines are payed for. You response was quite ignorant and I wasn't whining, I simply pointed out that today's combine value translated back to 1981 using what we get for wheat today in 1981 dollars would be unaffordable. Today a combine can be shut down by a bad sensor. Didn't happen in 1981!

[tweety]

I didn't say you were whining hammy

A better comparison might be a TR85 and CR9080