You mentioned hay. If you want a round baler and loader to lift them. you have 2 choices. buy a small baler in the 4 ft mark and you would need about 75 hp tractor.
large round baler is best to use 95-100 hp tractor. I had 4230 JD. the thing I like about the 5 wide large baler you can adjust the height and make it 4ft tall and it is a lot easier on a front end of tractor.
you can buy a 100hp tractor in any make you like.1070 2090 or 2290 case, 20,30,or 40 series JD, are nice and will do a good job on tillage with out spending all day on the 100 acre woods
If you only farm 100 I'm guessing you have a job that keeps you busy and the farm needs to be done on a timely matter. A 100hp tractor can be purchased for less money than a 50-60 hp tractor.
100hp will let you pull 20-24 ft of cultivator and get the job done without running high RPM on tractor and save 50% of the fuel. My friend has 2290 and uses my 24 ft and after going over the fields he does he put in X amount of fuel and was complaining to me it cost a lot to work and acre but his tractor was playing with it. I told him 3-4 weeks later when he did it again he should run 1500 rpm an shift up a few gears to get the right speed.was right on half the fuel. He knows because he goes to town to fuel up or carries jugs from town.
so to me 100-400 acres I would have 1 100hp tractor up too 200 acres and 2 as soon as I could afford it.
Now if you have more time and enjoy a square baler I would jump down too something like 1650 cockshutt. That size tractor will do all the tillage and can handle a 9-12 ft sickle haybine for cutting hay. Cost of tractor in that vintage HP is less than half of the 100hp I mentioned. Around here anyway.
I own a 1650 they go in good shape $3200-4000. 2290 cost 14,000 1070 is about $5000-7500. I have way more tractors than I need but bought most of them for half what I can get for them now. Buy low with minor issues that somebody else doesn't know or want to fix.
I like too look at cost per acre and time I want to spend on the field. If I can't make any money on it I want to spend as little time as possible. I do trucking on the side and that makes more money than the 150 acres I farm so I don't want to be in the tractor all the time when I could be making money with the truck. I do custom baling and hauling bales so I needed a good tractor for that and lets me do field work in the evening or I have sons that can do it as well. To small a tractor would take a lot of time making hay with squares and just not worth the time.
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