You buy a new bigger combine. To pay for it you add more land and help.
With the extra help you need more income so add more land.
Now you have too much land for that combine so you buy another one or a bigger one.
Now to pay for them you need more land and along with that comes more machinery.
I still say the most efficient farms are the ones run by one person doing the most acres he can by himself with the machinery he can afford.
I'm at that limit. If I had much more I would have to have a full time hired help. I have 3 son in laws that help after work and take a day off now and then to help.
I owe on one used mx240 that as at 2% interest. I was going to trade combines this year till I got sticker shock. Instead I put 4000$ in parts in mine and will run it a couple more years.
One guy can run almost a 1000 acres with a little part time help.
I know of guys running over 10,000 acres with 3 full time truck drivers. Along with the other hired help to run the 3 combines and grain carts.
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