Smaller canola crop....

[Guest]

New style macdon for next yr.275,000 retail.
We paid 128 for our new 2014..35 ft.
We are in the wrong business regardless of farm size or great yields.
Cut 240 acres of canola..looks like the farms best.ever.but combine will tell for sure.

Anyone that would pay $275k for a header should be beat with a club Friend bought a new fd75 35ft last year for $110 k . We bought a terra flex 35ft case 3020 for $28 k 2 years old. Not perfect but does the job

[fjlip]

Anyone that would pay $275k for a header should be beat with a club Friend bought a new fd75 35ft last year for $110 k . We bought a terra flex 35ft case 3020 for $28 k 2 years old. Not perfect but does the job

That is for the new 2018 swather...

[bucket]

A new cowling and decals.....geezus. ...

[sumdumguy]

In 1973, we grew a 30 bus flax crop and sold for $11.00 a bus, bought brand new Chevie half ton for $4200. Paid off the loan on a section of land near Regina. Now growing 15 Bus flax, will sell for maybe $11.00, new Chevie half ton $45,000.

[biglentil]

The new Testarossa Macdon @ Ferrari pricing.

[biglentil]

Jim Rogers was only half right when he said farmers would be driving Ferraris.

[Partners]

Yes ..either a car or tractor..combine..Air.
drill ..pick your toy...

[the big wheel]

You must be driving a dodge for 45,000 anything else is 60,000 hahahaha

[farmaholic]

I have a feeling that after today Mother Nature will have further reduced the size of my canola crop. My nemisis, the wind, will likely scatter or at the very least flip some light swaths.

Glad to report they didn't scatter badly... some movement but we've had a lot worse.

Constantly having to be thankful is wearing/grinding me down, especially when you really don't feel it but continue to tell yourself you need to be. Kinda a form of denial. .....wouldn't it be nice if it didn't matter!

Helped a further neighbor with a fire today....good to see people coming from the district to help out. Helped a fire Dept. with a ditch fire about three weeks ago. We have been taking a tillage unit and the sprayer nurse tank out to the fields with us.

Work safe and take care....

[hobbyfrmr]

Yeah but the ****ing leases are nearly what I paid for a new combine in 1997.


A header is worth almost as a combine 20 years ago....I don't see the value....and the crop to pay for it all isn't worth as much.

Grow more get less....mother nature gives you less and it's still worth less....

Combines headers bins drills all for what....to bust your ass so elevators can give you less..

You just have to buy/rent more land. It will bring down the costs of the equipment lease by spreading it over more acres. You need more land.
Efficiency.