With some careful shopping and a little knowledge, $2,000 will buy you quite a lot of tractor. Old, low-tech tractors without ANY modern conveniences, but good, solid horsepower. Thinks 40's and 50's era. AWFUL lot of corn, cotton, soybeans and wheat got planted and harvested with those tractors.
Finding suitable equipment will take more looking, but it does exist.
What you want to do is called "hobby farming". No expectation of breaking even, much less making any money. It's done for the love of it and the relaxation.
I do it on a very small scale. Lot of folks grow, bale and sell hay on this scale.
Original manuals can be found on Ebay, reproductions are also available.
As I said, this is a very good place to start. Read everything, start learning to screen out the bulls**t, ask a few questions. There'll be the usual percentage of folks that will give you a hard time, call you a wannabe and their answer to everything is "GET THE MANUAL", but they're a minority. Most folks here are glad to welcome a Noob to the fold and will be very helpful.
Unbelievable range of knowledge and experience right here.
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