If there's a demand, the companies will build them. Whether the huge machinery is good or bad depends on what end of the stick you are on. My neighbor plants and harvests my 700 acres with a 36 row planter and two 580R Lexions with 40 foot flex heads and 12 row corn heads. I can pretty much call the shot on when they come, and when that time comes to plant/harvest they can do it in a day and then they're gone. The planting can be done pretty much on that 'perfect' day and so can the harvesting.
I know this is a kind of a fairy tale situation, and not everyone can get their custom work done on time, but their huge machinery can make me money because of timeliness. Besides that, I get to run this stuff and play with the gadgets once in a while.
At the end of the year the check I write to them is kind of big,but the payments they make to their banker are MUCH bigger. Jim
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