Combines to answer the last two posts rumor las vegas

Right on Bob. Just think, By 2010 that combine will probably cost $500,000 with heads, a 300 H.P. front-wheel assist tractor at $250,000, anhydrous at $600 a ton, seed corn at $275 a bag, seed beans at $45 a bag, cash rent at $250 an acre, and here's the good part, corn still $1.70 per bushel and soybeans $5. I wonder who will be left to attend these BIG BOY auctions when the machinery companies and banks take them over. (Anybody want to buy a good R42IJIJ) Good luck....... DAN..........

Keeping the older used machines in goodshape and them lasting a lifetime is a good theory. However, in the real world things breakdown and there are many parts that mother AGCO will not produce. So you are down to getting an iffy part out of a boneyard or trying to fabricate it yourself. Many farmers don't have the knowledge, money or technical expertise to do it themselves. I think that they would make more money if they produced a smaller combine, made a small profit on each one and sold 3 or 4 times as many machines.

amen brother i would be interested in a small combine as would many others i suppose or we can just keep patching up our existing machines that are paid for

When you have to pay 100,000 for a small combine it doesn't compare to the fix it up price of a used one. Mabey i'm in the minority. I grant you that I am pretty decent at fixing broken parts so we can't all do that but I don't see the Companies selling a "cheap" combine to anyone regardless of color simply because the small farmer is such a minority that it is not profitable.

i like this idea case ih used this program to some degrees of success for several years with their magnum tractors but thats just me... i think i'll be stuck with my N7's for a long time august wieser rosholt, sd