Video - machinery for 86,000 acre farming operation

[dfoster]

I saw this video online - that's a huge farm....!

Video of machinery for 86,000 acre farm.

- Derek

 

[RaydaKub]

Just a couple extra hired hands to run it all.

Just the maintenance crew would be quite a few men!

 

[creekbend]

That is what I would call a LARGE operation. Thanks for posting.

 

[kebo]

Quite an impressive operation!! It bears out once again the old saying that, "it takes money to make money". I can't imagine how much they have tied up in equipment?? I bet the equipment dealers they buy their equipment from treat them like royalty lol.

 

[hizoot]

I swanny...that one tractor showed it was averaging about 35 gallons/hour. Can you imagine this multiplied by around 30-40+ machines? And all the Peterbilts...he would need his own refinery. Wow.....I am in awe. I saw one account to where he was farming right at 100,000 acres...or +/-150 square miles.

 

[boggen]

at that rate, you skip middle man. and have phone numbers to tech crews and top sales folks of various manufactures. and it would not be slight of hand but just a necessity.

 

[Dadof3]

How do you say...."ethanol subsidies"

 

[Rudevette]

How do you say...."ethanol subsidies"

I agree 100%. Raising grocery prices on working people to bankroll farmers is what ethanol is.

 

[tow653]

Worked on 13,000 acre operation back in the 80's,we had a lot of equipment,owner cut out most middle men,owned JD dealership as well as own elevators and fertilizer operation,but this dwarfs that.

 

[foreman Etexas]

WOW!!! Now thats an operation.. Not an orange one in the house,come on not even a lawn mower:laughing: