There isn't really a huge difference in costs from one operation to another... there's just a HUGE difference in what's accounted for in that 'cost' from one operation to another. The farm with junk mentaility works OK until something breaks down and you lose a big portion of your crop. If you account for THAT loss then all of a sudden working with junk doesn't look so cheap. If you keep multiples of junk equipment to offset that possibility... you have a cost there... On the other side of the fence... the nutrient miners that don't plant/grow crops and don't add anything in terms of fertility... might get along fine until you get that hot dry year that nothing grows... then that lack of fertility and soil structure whacks you up the side of the head pretty good. So the field that used to make 100 bales per acre that now made 40 bales... just changed your costs a LOT. Fuel is another big variable... When I look around this area at the people that bale hay and sell it for 2 bucks off the field... I wonder what their motive is. Making money certainly isn't it.
It also costs me 50 cents a bale to move hay every time I touch it...
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Today's Featured Article - Bad Vibes - by Curtis Von Fange. One of the strangest ways to communicate with our tractor is to ask it how it feels. "Ask it how it feels," you say? Yup, ask it how it feels. Now, as with the other articles in this series one has to be able to hear what 'ole blue' is trying to say in response. The nice thing about our old iron friends is that they are usually quite consistent in their response, rather unlike some people I know who might change what they say due to the weather or other mitigating circumstances. But since t
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