Modern equipment

Charlie M · May 9, 2015

Land across the road from me changed hands this year - its about a 100 acre field. Previous farmer would take over a week to work it and plant it. He had some good size equipment including a JD that could handle about 7 bottoms. New owner put two big tractors in the field disking one day this week in the morning, had it planted and moved on before I got home in the afternoon. I am always amazed at what today's equipment can do.I'm used to my M with a 3 bottom plow, 4 row corn planter and 1 row corn picker. Things have changed from my days of growing up on a farm in the 60's.

David G · May 9, 2015

It is not going to go back to the old ways.

Alan K · May 9, 2015

Back in the mid 1990s my dad used to say a person used to see farmers out working the fields and now days you see a field is dug and planted and you never saw anyone in there. That was true back then as well.

gtractorfan · May 9, 2015

Many nowadays do no-til which saves more time. Spraying is a lot quicker.

rrlund · May 9, 2015

Ya,I posted the other day about a BTO who just took some land here in the neighborhood. Said to be working 125,000 acres. They had 5 QuadTracs doing tillage and 3 big Deeres with 24 row planters. That was just one of who knows how many crews like that.
I put some numbers in the pocket calculator. To plant that many acres in 30 days,you'd need to plant 4166 acres a day. To harvest it in 60 days,you'd need to run 2083 acres a day. Apparently,they can.

shunkfarm · May 9, 2015

The corners of the fields get neglected with the huge equipment.

showcrop · May 9, 2015

(quoted from post at 18:47:23 05/09/15) The corners of the fields get neglected with the huge equipment.

That is true but there are way fewer corners to neglect than there used to be!

504 · May 9, 2015

When our dads came home from WWII they bought Ms to farm with,when they had left, most were walking behind a mule. Times change fast.

Loosehandle · May 9, 2015

Don't forget WW4 will be fought with clubs. Don't know how they will farm.

GreenEnvy · May 9, 2015

In the 60s we were farming with a JD 5010 and 4020. With the limited capacity of the drills we did good to seed over 100 acres a day. Now with two 61ft air drills, we can knock out over 600 a day if everything goes right.

01gentdc · May 9, 2015

so glad I got to learn the good ways and don't have to do the big time craziness

flying belgian · May 9, 2015

loose, I don't get that??

JMS/.MN · May 9, 2015

WWIII will put the world back into the Stone Age. Then history repeats itself.

mmidlam · May 10, 2015

That BTO is in our area too. They had a 48 row planter last year.

bradley martin · May 10, 2015

And that assumes that every day is fit for field work!!

rrlund · May 10, 2015

Ya,I'd heard they had some of those too. These are smaller fields up here.

Traditional Farmer · May 10, 2015

And now with self driving tractors coming Monsanto and Deere can do away with the farmer.

shunkfarm · May 10, 2015

(quoted from post at 22:35:41 05/09/15)

(quoted from post at 18:47:23 05/09/15) The corners of the fields get neglected with the huge equipment.

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That is true but there are way fewer corners to neglect than there used to be!

I get your point and it is true in a lot of cases. Our little farm has not changed much over the years. The farmers equipment gets bigger and less nimble. I see the neighbors cut a few acres off the end of a field to make it more square and big equipment friendly. Over here we are looking to get every foot we can making money or it wont be feasible to keep the place.
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rrlund · May 10, 2015

I know what you mean. The first time I came through Wisconsin,I couldn't believe how every little corner was used. The topography here in Michigan is about the same,it's just that a lot of those odd corners and small spots on the back side of low areas have been abandoned here.

Kent Petersen · May 10, 2015

That 125000 thousand acres sounds like a pipe dream to me. I live in eastern SD and our land is all layed out in sq miles.a lot of guys farming 25 to 30 Qts a qt is 160 acres go 150 miles west of here they farm 40 to 50 thousand acers i know a little about your land out there with your little feilds and narrow roads i think you would be hard pressed to farm even 50000 acers

centash · May 10, 2015

Doomsayers are not sure what weapons will be used in WW3; they do predict that WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones....

Ben

rrlund · May 11, 2015

It sounds unbelievable to me too,but in everything I've read,Stamp Farms consisted of 40,000 acres and this outfit was already up and running when they took over Stamp's from bankruptcy court. The word around is that they had 96,000 last year and that they're up to 125,000 this year. Take it for what it's worth. There doesn't seem to be anybody in Michigan who doesn't have them farming land in their area.

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