AgTalk Home
AgTalk Home
Search Forums | Classifieds (9) | Skins | Language
You are logged in as a guest. ( logon | register )

Tractors old to almost new?
View previous thread :: View next thread
   Forums List -> Machinery TalkMessage format
 
plowboy
Posted 7/7/2006 18:56 (#24696 - in reply to #24636)
Subject: RE: Tractors old to almost new?



Brazilton KS

For 200 or 300 acres it will be impossible to run a decent sized "almost new" tractor if you intend to have the business even stand a chance of showing a profit.  There is simply no way to spread $15-20,000 per year of interest and depreciation across that few acres and absorb it on a grain farm.  You'd have as much as 100 per acre just in the cost of the tractor and that is at the high end of what you can forcast as profit. 

 

Take a  $5,000 non-Deere,  but good tractor, such as the A-C's  Greg mentions in the other thread, and keep it in good condition and there is no reason at all to expect it to break down in the four days or so that it has to work to plant the crop....and suddenly instead of $100 per acre in tractor expenses you have more like $10 and there is some room for profit. 

Top of the page Bottom of the page


Jump to forum :
Search this forum
Printer friendly version
E-mail a link to this thread

(Delete cookies)