bigtiller
Super Member
- Joined
- Feb 1, 2006
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- central Iowa
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- John Deere 2720 John Deere 3039R John Deere Z545R
You can't go wrong with corn. The problem is, you have 35 acres. That amount of land won't pay for much more than really old 4-row equipment.
I have 30 acres and found it much more profitable and entertaining to rent it out to someone with modern equipment that can till it in an hour, plant a 30,000 population in about an hour with a 24 row planter, spray it in 30 minutes with a 120' sprayer and harvest it with an 8 row corn-head combine, auger wagon, and haul it to market with 3 semi's.
Like you, I would rather do it myself but the modern equipment is so much more efficient.
I have 30 acres and found it much more profitable and entertaining to rent it out to someone with modern equipment that can till it in an hour, plant a 30,000 population in about an hour with a 24 row planter, spray it in 30 minutes with a 120' sprayer and harvest it with an 8 row corn-head combine, auger wagon, and haul it to market with 3 semi's.
Like you, I would rather do it myself but the modern equipment is so much more efficient.