Combines Biggest Grain Growers

[jp]

I know that King Ranch down in Texas plants a huge number of acres in addition to their cattle herd and other enterprises. That is the only actual name that comes to mind. Here in Il there are a few guys that are up around 10,000 acres, which is a huge amount.

 

[Rex]

Here in western Nebraska, there are several producers that farm over 10,000 acres. Most have dryland and irrigation. I would guess the largest total acres planted per year for one producer (not some corp. investment operation),is about 20,000 acres. These farms are not the norm though.

 

[Illinois_Gleaner]

There is supposedly someone south of Springfield that farms 58 to 60,000 acres but down here about 100 miles south there is a guy that farms 25,000 and his brother farms 7000 acres.That is real big in my opinion.

 

[Tom_Russell]

A guy from Texas on another board said most Texas farming country is not down from other Midwest states. I am about 1100 feet above sea level and if I recall correctly he was more than twice as high as I am. My neighbor who was farming several thousand acres gave up all his rented acres last fall. He must have figured that the string of good weather we have enjoyed was ending and he sure was correct. We are still a week away from getting in the field in a big way. Tom in MN

 

[T__langan]

When I refer to "down in Texas", I don't mean it in terms of elevation. Anything south is "down" and anything north is "up". East and west are "over there". Anybody else go by these terms or are we just strangeIJ No funny comments on that one either Mr. Russell!

 

[Oz]

We use the same terms "over here".But back to the question at hand.What is the largest grain farm in the U.S.or anywhere for that matter.The grower that I mentioned with 100,000 ac. is not the norm.Were we are there is a lot of 10-15000 ac growers down to around 2000. This is dryland farming 10-12 inch rainfall.

 

[thud]

Theres a grower in Brazil that runs 250,000 acres ,( the worlds largest farmer) mostly soys. Recently saw a video on his operation. It is a PRIVATE operation,although im sure he is incorporated or ltd. ( By private i mean its not a corporate farm with outside investors etc).

 

[l3]

Up north. Down south. Out west. Back east.

 

[Rolf]

G'Day

 

[Brian]

I'm sure there are some wheat farmers that tip the scales at 100,000 plus. My dad went to an auction in North Dakota where the farmer had 56,000 acres. Also, I've talked to a customer cutter (10 R-72's) who claimed he was running in a 32,000 acre field in Montana. He said they had 50 combines in that field at one time. Brian