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Was watching the TV last night. Got tired of news junk. Was turning thru channels where I never go and found a program on farming in the US vs Europe.
I spent 6 yrs there in the Army back in the 60s, but never saw anything like they were showing.
The tractors had the front mount 3-point...I knew about those, but they have some neat implements.
One had a hay mower conditioner on the front and a rake on the back. Another had plows on both ends and yet another had a disk on the front and a planter on the back.
Those are really nice rigs. Wonder why we never see such things here?
 
I always figured part of the use over there was the small fields they have. A smaller implement fully mounted on each end is more maneuverable. Also some of it may be their higher fuel costs giving more incentive to double up on operations. my thoughts anyway.. You can get aftermarket units here too.
 
Check power of tractor and size of farms, growing seasons and moisture pattern.A 100 hp tractor that can do 2 jobs on one pass for a 200acre farm that gets a few extra days of rain during a 100 day growing season may make more sense than a 200 hp tractor that does one thing a pass but twice as wide a area for a 1000 acre farm operation with 120 days growing and 24 to 30 inches rain total. Illinois flat land and Nebraska prairie different than Minnesota wetlands that are closer to Northern European conditions. That said the Euopean equipment and multihitch tractors are used some in east coast vegetable and mixed crop smaller farm growing areas. RN
 
Minnesota wetlands? We can only hope.

For the record.

IL avg rainfall is 33.34
NE avg rainfall is 30.34
MN avg raingall is 26.36
 
Saw something like this during the spring planting season around here. The guy had a cultivator mounted on the front, and a rear 3 pt. planter on the rear. Did it all in one pass.
 
(quoted from post at 13:06:15 11/05/08) Saw something like this during the spring planting season around here. The guy had a cultivator mounted on the front, and a rear 3 pt. planter on the rear. Did it all in one pass.
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That's what my neighbor does. I'll see if I can get some pics, but think they are about done for the year.

Dave
 
I can't get enough of Classic Tractors and Machinery of the Past on RFD TV. The episodes aren't long enough though! :D
 
I was at a New York ski resort a few years back and they had a Deutz tractor with a 3-pt. on the front.
There were a lot of wine vineyards nearby, don't know if that is pertinent or not.
 
Rain is a bit short compared to others- but your growing season is a couple weeks shorter than the other examples and like N Wisconsin the last glaciers scraped topsoil south. Home farm in central Iowa has deeper loam soil than more clay base left around St.Paul and lesser ponds- still might have 30 acres designated wetlands and some happy ducks. RN
 
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