new member, new farm, and looking

[juddmyers]

I understand what you are saying about going backwards, there is a method to my madness. I have to clear the land and get it ready first. I'm not really sure yet what the crop will be, I imagine it will be several. I have read about a lot of 5 acre organic farms that do very well. I imagine I will section off my land into about 5 acre sections and do different crops in each one. I am going to visit an organic farm close to where mine will be in early december, so I imagine I will have some more ideas then. I just want to be getting everything ready now and playing on the farm. It's just something i love to do, spend my time on the tractor.

As far as full time/ part time. I won't have a choice but to start out part time, but I would love to quickly get it to full time.

Thanks to whomever brought up the part about adjusting wheel width, Does anyone know is that something that can be done with most fwd's I am looking at or are they all different?

 

[juddmyers]

Montana looks to have merged with Branson, so if you can stand the color, a 12 by 12 shuttle shift, a 38, 43, or 47 HP tractor weighing about 4100 lbs for a LOT le$$ money then a Kukje tractor with a Montana paint job could work for you.
For now they are red.

I have never heard of Montana... what can you tell me about them??

 

[IslandTractor]

Montana and Branson are made by Kukje Machinery Co which is a Korean conglomerate that has been in operation for about forty years. They don't have a very big market share in the US but are pretty well respected. The concern would be the stability of the dealer and importer rather than the tractor itself.

 

[flusher]

I understand what you are saying about going backwards, there is a method to my madness. I have to clear the land and get it ready first. I'm not really sure yet what the crop will be, I imagine it will be several. I have read about a lot of 5 acre organic farms that do very well. I imagine I will section off my land into about 5 acre sections and do different crops in each one. I am going to visit an organic farm close to where mine will be in early december, so I imagine I will have some more ideas then. I just want to be getting everything ready now and playing on the farm. It's just something i love to do, spend my time on the tractor.

As far as full time/ part time. I won't have a choice but to start out part time, but I would love to quickly get it to full time.

Thanks to whomever brought up the part about adjusting wheel width, Does anyone know is that something that can be done with most fwd's I am looking at or are they all different?

OK. I understand your situation better now. You're thinking about going into what used to be called truck farming (row crop veggies). So here's a suggestion--get yourself an old Farmall A, B or C tractor. They're relatively inexpensive and you can shop around for tilling and cultivating implements that will fit.

Last year I bought a 1951 Farmall Super A tractor for $1300, including a mid-mount sicklebar mower and a rear blade.

 

[juddmyers]

And you think that farmall is going to clear 30 acres? because i dont think so

 

[Carykong]

I am thinking that two tractors may be your best solution. A antique for row cropping less that 15 acres is amazing low cost solution. I have a 1951 Case VAC tricycle with easy change on width of rear wheels,agile,and pulls a 7 ft disc or two blade bottom plow with ease. Paid $1200 but ya have to enjoy tinkering with the simple engine to keep her running.

I used my Case for bushhogging 30 acres with a 5ft hog but ya really got to like tractor seat time to stick with that task. I have a TC35 with FEL for mowing and moving logs now and I rent the pasture out to another farmer for haying operations so my bush hogging chores are minimal now. The old Case is superior to my TC35 for gardening and row cropping at 1/20th the cost.

 

[MarkV]

WHAT???? I live in the middle of an 80 acre field. There are row crop farms all around me for two miles in each direction. I routinely watch 110 hp John Deere tractors being used for planting, cultivating, side dressing, in other words EVERYTHING done for row crop farming. Oh yes and these are all Four wheel drive.

Don't you think that the best advice would be buy a tractor you can adjust the wheels to match your row width.....rather than to suggest that a large tractor will work against you for farming. What baffles me is why anyone wanting to farm row crop would buy ANY tractor that you could not adjust the wheels in or out to match any particular row width.

Warren I understand your point but when organic farming was mentioned I think of vegetables and I don't see many 100 hp tractors doing that. The organic vegetable farms I have seen are generally using smaller lighter tractors for maneuverability and less soil compaction.

MarkV

 

[Reg]

Montana and Branson are made by Kukje Machinery Co which is a Korean conglomerate that has been in operation for about forty years. They don't have a very big market share in the US but are pretty well respected. The concern would be the stability of the dealer and importer rather than the tractor itself.

Right,
I think of them as being Kukje tractors, with various importer's paint and emblem "finish jobs".

Some (many, most) parts are available from your local JD dealer, once you have the rosetta stone showing make/model equivalence (-:

Expen$ive parts (which is how they will manage to still be there), but available.
Much like Chryco's re-badging of Mitsubishi cars and trucks as "Dodge",
Some Chevvies being in fact Toyotas, Fords Explorers being whatever else.
Ingenuity or emblem engineering ? call it what you will.
A Kukje tractor is a Kukje tractor, a rose is a rose, etc.

 

[juddmyers]

I didn't understand you had meant to buy two. Now I'm with you, that might be an option.

 

[flusher]

And you think that farmall is going to clear 30 acres? because i dont think so

Nope. But it's an inexpensive way to handle your organic farming when you get around to that work.

Clearing your 30 acres is a one time job. Maybe it's better to rent a tractor or hire that work done.