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Post by jcg10 on Jan 4, 2013 23:16:56 GMT -5
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Post by Southern on Jan 5, 2013 7:06:58 GMT -5
How many acres yall do?
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Post by jcg10 on Jan 5, 2013 10:40:03 GMT -5
About 1500
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Post by Southern on Jan 5, 2013 12:33:35 GMT -5
Ok cool. That is about the size of the biggest farms in my area. Not many gets up to the 1,000 mark. Even fewer pass that. Yeah I can see that combine getting tired. Lot of acres for him. What tractor is on the disk or disk ripper? |
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Post by jcg10 on Jan 5, 2013 13:02:27 GMT -5
We have 2 7720s but usually we are just running one because there is always something wrong with the other. About a week is as long as we went running both.
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Post by steiger9330 on Jan 5, 2013 16:04:12 GMT -5
Nice pictures. I like the grain cart. I'm actually making a toy one right now that is halfway finished.
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Post by jka300 on Jan 5, 2013 16:53:46 GMT -5
Nice pictures. We just bought a JD 7720 last spring. It combine all 512 acres without a problem. I wish that was the same case here with small farms. Lots of farmers come from over seas here and been buying out all the farmland making it difficult for small young farmers like me to expand. This year I will only have about 200 acres to seed because one guy offered $130/acre where I was offering what the norm is $80. Makes farming hard
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Post by JDRanch-Hand on Jan 5, 2013 16:58:13 GMT -5
$130 an acre?!! Where are you at?!
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Post by jcg10 on Jan 5, 2013 17:07:37 GMT -5
Nice pictures. We just bought a JD 7720 last spring. It combine all 512 acres without a problem. I wish that was the same case here with small farms. Lots of farmers come from over seas here and been buying out all the farmland making it difficult for small young farmers like me to expand. This year I will only have about 200 acres to seed because one guy offered $130/acre where I was offering what the norm is $80. Makes farming hard I know the feeling. Times have changed making it hard to even get started with your farming operation let alone expanding. we have never had ground pulled out from under us but my cousins just this year lost about 1000acres because of someone offering a little more to the landlord and accepting it with out asking them if thats what they would also be willing to pay. |
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Post by farmerboy1568 on Jan 5, 2013 20:13:48 GMT -5
Ground here used to be 2500 an acre for good ground in 2000, now it's about between 8000 and 10000 an acre. There paying up to 505 an acre to rent!!
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Post by steiger9330 on Jan 5, 2013 20:16:44 GMT -5
505 an acre, you must have some good ground in your area. No way you'd even come close to making a profit here with that expense. Yields wouldn't be high enough to justify.
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Post by jcg10 on Jan 5, 2013 20:36:43 GMT -5
Around here ground is going for 5k to 8k and rent is from100 to 250
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Post by jka300 on Jan 5, 2013 20:49:29 GMT -5
I wouldn't have paid $130/acre for buckskin and rock. Guess there isn't such a thing called loyalty anymore. The other problem is that these guy also drive land price high too. Someone paid $1 million for 250 acres of land and now trying to rent every piece of land in sight. I just hope that my relatives decide to sell or rent to me or I will be finished in afew years. Won't sell to these land hungry people thou, it will become a park instead. I like trees, they don't.
Thats a nice looking JD 4650 tractor you guys have. I got a JD 4450 with about 6389 hrs on it.
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Post by jcg10 on Jan 5, 2013 21:31:29 GMT -5
Ours has about 6000 too, I was at a sale where 200 acres went for 1.2 million and that was cheap for around here.
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Post by jka300 on Jan 5, 2013 21:40:33 GMT -5
Thats nuts. How would anybody ever pay that off with that small amount of land. Their poor kids and grand kids will be in debt for the rest of their lives! This is our 4450 and our 4010   |
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Post by duplin97 on Jan 5, 2013 23:07:12 GMT -5
Clean looking 4450. Biggest farms in my area reach the 900-1,000 acre mark. A few BTOs around with 1,500+.
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Post by jka300 on Jan 5, 2013 23:17:13 GMT -5
Thx. The biggest farms in around our area is 1000 to 5000 acres. About 40 to 45% are around the 300 to 500 range but that number drops every year.
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Post by hoss on Jan 6, 2013 16:58:40 GMT -5
land is hard to find around here because we have alot that is unsuitable for anything except pasture most farmers are small.
Now my home away from home aka college in Calloway county Kentucky is surround by larger farms, about an hr away in Ballard county there are big acreage farms, one of my fraternity brothers is from Ballard and his family farms about 13,000 acres.
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Post by dodgeram on Jan 6, 2013 18:24:29 GMT -5
Very cool pictures! Really like that 4650 and C65. Had a C65 for a few years as a water truck for the dirtbike track.
Land around here is pushing $8000 an acre. We want to buy a 20 acre piece in front of us but the lady wants $12000 and acre and 10 of it are a swamp. Mabey she'll drop the price after the neighbors 5 year hay lease is up.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2013 19:45:55 GMT -5
Great pictures!
Sorry to hear about the passing of your Grandpa.
The 7720's were a good combine, always been a fan of those 20 series Deeres. Moving up to a 9560 or 9570STS will be a big upgrade but should suit your farm well.
Up here in Ontario Canada, land is selling between 11,000 - $14,000 an acre
Jason
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