I only farm 100 acres and work full time for Bayer. I’m still more concerned about time. Now if you’re not currently grain farming I can understand why it doesn’t bother you as much but if you ever do get that whole 500 acres you’re going to find it harder and harder to make it pencil out with every acre you add if you still plan on trying to make it work doing it part time. Fuel economy isn’t even a fraction of the bottom line of farming. You’re wanting to farm for fun so if all you are looking to do is play then why bother trying to justify it at all, just have fun with it.
None on my equipment it remotely modern and I’ve never even come close to paying 10 grand for a tractor let alone 20. The big tractors are 1955 and 1950T Oliver’s and a 4-150 White. My biggest field is only 12 acres and my smallest is 2 acres but I still run a 9 shank soil saver and a 24 foot soil finisher. You’re not going to do the same amount of work in a day with a 3 bottom plow and a 10 foot disk whether you have small fields or big fields. That’s the whole reason guys back in the day went from D’s to R’s to 80’s and on up the line. It’s not about how little fuel you can use it’s a race against the clock to get the crop in the ground and get it off the field. When you have thousands of dollars tied up in seed, fertilizer and chemicals and every day you wast in the spring is bushels and dollars lost,3 dollars difference an acre on fuel becomes a mute point. If you’re farming 20 acres it’s easy to still get the numbers to work. With the cost of inputs these days though you aren’t going to get it to work farming 500 acres with a 2 banger, this isn’t 1950 anymore. Like I said though, for 20 acres just forget about the fuel and go play.
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