Harvest Reflections......

[the big wheel]

Should you keep farming if your neighbors equipment line is worth more than your land base? hmmm

Only if you have subsidized irrigation your worthless dried out dessert will be a fortune now. Did you buy lots of land there just like the insiders to
The giverment did?

[bucket]

Only if you have subsidized irrigation

Or the potential for subsidized irrigation ....most money ever made on irrigation is selling the land because it had a government paid water pipeline cross it....not farming it or putting a pivot on it....just using the government subsidy...

Its interesting to see how guys that promoted irrigation got out as soon as the project was complete....some bought a used piece of shit pivot for display and then the new owners shittcanned those for new ones...

[the big wheel]

Would be Interesting to see who was buying land there shortly prior to the announcement

[6V53]

Back in the day there was a guy here that would drive his 21 massey to Winnipeg 400+ miles to to combine his field there. He just put a mattress on the straw walkers.

[rumrocks]

My Dad said when Grandpa was seeding with a small drill and horses on a quarter section the wheat would be germinated and out of the ground before he finished seeding in the middle.

[furrowtickler]

I can’t believe new swathers are $250,000 now
It’s plain stupid

[Herc]

I can’t believe new swathers are $250,000 now
It’s plain stupid

New tractor - $700k
Drill/tank - $700k
Combine - $700k
Sprayer - $700k
New megacab - $100k

Wheat -$6

Jeezus....

[bucket]

New tractor - $700k
Drill/tank - $700k
Combine - $700k
Sprayer - $700k
New megacab - $100k

Wheat -$6

Jeezus....

Yup making it up on volume.....until it no longer makes sense to grow 100bpa.....funny part is dryland has nearly caught up to those promoting the white elephant project with zero from the government....

[newguy]

Custom combining in the States.

[furrowtickler]

Yup making it up on volume.....until it no longer makes sense to grow 100bpa.....funny part is dryland has nearly caught up to those promoting the white elephant project with zero from the government....

Problem is , can’t grow volume unless perfect weather in growing season
Then there is weather at harvest that effects quality .
And hail , and frost and heat , and and .....
everything is priced for perfect high volume crops .... happens in most areas 1 out of 10 .
Here that’s a stretch
So it’s good used stuff and keep it maintained as well as one can , is what it is . Can’t expose oneself too that much risk beyond Mother Nature .
Honeymoon in Ag for primary producers is over . For many it never happened at all .
But the rest of Ag and this seed breeder issue thinks we all roll in big crops , high quality , perfect grain every year ... at least the sure charge like it .
Volume and quality are basically out of our control 95% of the time . Very few in the Ag industry truly understand that . Most on here do