I got a price on a bigger LS 7030C of $36,900 without a loader which I think is not very good. It's last years model and has been on somebodies lot a long time.
I think the LS7030CS with loader and hydrualic shuttle is somewhere around $41,390, (on tractorhouse), which is OK but not blow your socks off. I would think that you should be in that $36,390 range for that same tractor without a loader as $5,000 for a loader is not a whole lot now days. So, the price I got for the tractor without hydraulic shuttle is high. IMO
I priced a 100hp Kubota last year w/o a loader but with a seven speed powershift, which would be better for me, for just under $50,000. I doubt I could get that deal again but we'll see. I try to find value and going from a 70 hp poweshuttle tractor for $41,390 to a seven speed powershilf 100 hp tractor, (with better resale), for about $8,000 more, albeit w/o loader, is probably a bett deal. Either way, IMO their close and for LS to break in they can't be that close.