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Saronville NE | What do you mean if guys still farmed that way, I have a couple neighbors that still do farm that way, and have money. One of them I do chores for in winter when they go visit there kids or something, newest tractro is 4440, has 2 -4020s, 3010, H, and 6620 w 4 r beanhead and cornhead. Plants with a 7100 6 r planter on 4020, and hauls all grain to town with 2 70s 14ft boxs GM trucks. Still pitchforks alot of hay by hand and feeds silage outa a pit silo in the barn and is al pitchforked into a 55gal barrell that a old rope lift still pulls up with a model T tranny hooked to a electric motor and then pull out on a rail to dump into bunks. Guy doesnt borrow money and lives comfortably with 520 acres and 85 cows.
Another neighbor farms 400 a with a 4020, and 4320 both with no cabs, and does all work that way and no livestock, doesnt borrow a dime, pays cash for everything. Lives very comfortabley. Neither one has kids coming home to farm. The first one has a son who pry would, but he doest have to go buy a bunch of machinery, and doesnt want to have to do it the old way.
We run some mid to late mcahinery but only because of custom work and thats whats payn for that machinery, but lookin at the numbers not so sure that if spent more time at home and do things a little more right, that wouldnt make as much or more money with alot less stress, but just young nuff yet not ready to run with all old stuff yet, want to enjoy some of the newer stuff yet.
It can be done, you dont have to farm 3k acres to make it work, you just cant do it with new or late model machinery.
Edited by ahay68979 11/18/2010 20:29
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600 acres and 40-50 head of sows
