{"id":21213,"date":"2022-05-28T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21213"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:29:04","slug":"episode-590-just-how-much-does-a-new-tractor-cost-may-28-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21213","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 590 JUST HOW MUCH DOES A NEW TRACTOR COST? MAY 28, 2022?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE  590    JUST HOW MUCH DOES A NEW TRACTOR COST?  MAY 28, 2022?<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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A STRANGE THyING HAPPENED ON THE FIFTH LINE TODAY.  I was out at the farm mailbox looking at the<\/div>\n
rocks we had removed from our 25 acre farm.  Not really a farm.  25 acres is not a farm.   As a matter of <\/div>\n
fact 100 acres is no longer a farm.   How many acres makes  a farm these days?   Anthony Acres, a large<\/div>\n
commercial farm down the Fifth line rent 12,000 acres from landowners near the GTA.  Now that is a farm.<\/div>\n
Yes, 12,000 acres.<\/div>\n

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As I was thinking about the change in agriculture, I heard something thundering down the line.<\/div>\n

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A big JOhn Deere tractor with hydraulic rollers was passing.   I took a fast picture.<\/div>\n

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The the strangest thing happened.   The driver put on the brakes and backed up to where I was standing.<\/div>\n
\u201cDp want a picture of yourself on the machine?\u201d, he said.  \u201cYou bet , I do.”<\/div>\n

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I climbed h ladder into the cab.  The young man snapped my picture then continued his way down the<\/div>\n
line to a field near Highway 7 that needed rolling to keep the stones from destroying the cylinder of<\/div>\n
the combine next fall.   Pushed the stones back down into the earth from whence they came.  Delivered thousands of<\/div>\n
years ago by the ice sheet that covered Ontario.  Ice moves.  Ice grinds rocks into boulders. Boulders into stones.<\/div>\n

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That set me to thinking.   How much does a tractor like that cost?  Really cost.  The young farmer was not too<\/div>\n
sure but ventured a figure of $200,00 dollars with attachments like the roller or a multi furrow plough or a stone picker.<\/div>\n

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He was correct.   A 100 horsepower John Deere tractor costs somewhere between $100,000 to $150,000 dollar brand new.<\/div>\n
Holy Samoley!  Anthony Acres have several of these plus attachments and several combine harvesters.  That is well over<\/div>\n
a million dollars worth of farm machines.   How do they ever make a profit?<\/div>\n

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They cannot make a profit buying farmland.  So they do not even try.  They rent land paying landowners about $90 an acre intent.<\/div>\n

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Just how much profit can a modern farmer expect \u2026 on a per acre basis?  Not much.<\/p>\n

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EASTERN ONTARIO: It could take about 50 years for crops to pay for acre of land<\/h1>\n
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