OK, I change my oil at less then manufactures recommendations now days.
It wasn't to many years ago that trucks and cars were at 3000 mile intervals and tractors 100 hours.
Now they all increased to up to 10,000 miles and 600 hr.
I switched to synthetics in the mid 70's for the cold weather starting ability and the quicker oil circulation in sub zero temps.
Over the years I've had a couple of no oil pressure or lack of oil from oil pump drive shafts breaking, knocking oil filters off, oil pan leaks,
and seeing minimal damage to those engines, has convinced me of the benefits of synthetics.
My tractors and pickup are on Rotella T6, the pickup gets a change between 5-7000 miles depending what I have done and have
coming up. The tractors get a change every fall so as to have fresh oil for the winter regardless of the # of hours. I see people thinking that
they can tell from the color how clean it is, sorry no way. Mechanical injection diesels always get dirty looking quickly, the early electronic common rails
stayed much cleaner looking. But now we are back to dirty oil because of the emission equipment, egr makes the oil dirty looking, pdf's having to be regenerated
requiring excess fuel to dumped in through the engine to try and burn them clean, my pickups manual comments on the oil getting diluted with diesel from the excess
fuel injection until the oil temp gets high enough to cook it out. So in conclusion if you have a tier 4 tractor your oil is going to get fuel dilution in the oil
and if you are not putting long duration work days on it, hows that going to get cooked out.
So enjoy and change your oils as you wish, mine will get done annually or more often, certainly not less and it will be synthetic.