DANOCHEESE
Gold Member
WOW Nice thread gets tuned into an ethanol bashing thread.
Video - machinery for 86,000 acre farming operation
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gabby
Gold Member
It's because ethanol is nothing but government subsidized fake fuel that makes food cost more
mikehaugen
Elite Member
so you found my video... this is just my hobby farm, you should see my real money-maker!
Don87
Elite Member
Needs added language to correctly portray it so I'll be the 'bad guy'.
The government's income is from taxes. Taxes come from working people.
Subsidies are nothing more than ............your money.
Gub'ment money is what they already took from your paycheck.
That's if you are part of the 50% of the country that is actually drawing a paycheck.
CompactTractorFan
Super Member
:laughing:
hawkeye08
Elite Member
I talked to a neighbor recently, he does not farm near as much as the video above, but he has near new equipment mostly. I ask him how he can do that with the costs so high... He smiled and said with the internet, he can shop all over the country, many times he does not even look at it himself, but has trusted folks around the US. He almost never buys new but often buys one or two year old at fire sale prices. He can use it several years and sell it for what he paid for it. I asked him how he transports it across the country... he said that is the key to his method, he has a trucker buddy that picks it up and brings it home. His network of friends and transportation also aid in selling his equipment after he has used it a few years.
Newer equipment does not generally have the wear out kind of maintenance/rebuilds that older equipment has so he just has the normal change oil, filters, grease and the occasional a belt... he pulled in the field across from our house with a 120' sprayer that unfolded with hydraulics. It had a big tank and individually controlled 20' sections of boom. He said he can go around the outside of the field and then let the autosteer and computers run things. He has many smaller parcels and spends too much time setting up and breaking down.
I am guessing that 86,000 acres has some good sized fields, much more efficient with larger equipment.
Newer equipment does not generally have the wear out kind of maintenance/rebuilds that older equipment has so he just has the normal change oil, filters, grease and the occasional a belt... he pulled in the field across from our house with a 120' sprayer that unfolded with hydraulics. It had a big tank and individually controlled 20' sections of boom. He said he can go around the outside of the field and then let the autosteer and computers run things. He has many smaller parcels and spends too much time setting up and breaking down.
I am guessing that 86,000 acres has some good sized fields, much more efficient with larger equipment.
bigbull338
Elite Member
running a farm that size would be more fun than you know.
Votum
Member
Funny, I have watched that video three times and didn't see a thing for corn, planting or harvesting either one.
