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I assume that you are speaking of the wheatland model of various tractor makes, and not land for growing wheat. (grin). In western Kansas where I grew up it was rare for anyone to grow milo or corn, let alone try to grow soybeans. There just wasn't enough moisture available to produce a dependable crop. On occasion a wheat crop would be lost to hail or a variety of other ills, so a farmer would slobber in a crop of milo with a grain drill. Drill feeds would be covered over for better row spacing, but spacing within the row was a nightmare. Cultivating of this milo crop would be done early with a rotary hoe, then left for the shade of the crop to prevent other weeds. It worked fairly well since there wasn't a lot of moisture for the weeds either. What I am saying is that without the need for 3 point hitches for planter, cultivators, etc. the famers would rather bank the extra expense than to make a purchase that wouldn't be used. Three point hitches didn't start showing up in our area on a regular basis until about 1970 or even later. With the exception of small utility tractors that is, and there were few farmers that had those. Wheatland tractors were made for pulling implements, not for clearing growing crops with a higher profile tractor. Remember that while a quarter section of row crops would yield a fair return per bushel, wheat didn't give the same bushel return so farms had to be larger to return the same dollar figure. The raw horsepower of a wheatland tractor covered more acres a day pulling an implement than was needed for lifting an implement at the end of a row.
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