Combines Triva Question for you

[Ilnewholland]

Okay I will try. Price of tractor $17,500.00, price of corn $2.85, I think beans hit the high of something like $14.00 a bu. that year. Ilnh p.s. I don't feel so bad about my desk now, it only goes down to about 1991 or so!

 

[belly_acres]

Tractor should have been somewhere around $15500.00. Corn close to $2.50 and beans in the $6.00 range. By the way the tractor should still be worth that money. Rod

 

[azcutter]

that 7520 listed for about $26,000 back in the day,corn about 2.35 and beans 9.00 azcutter

 

[Matt_NEMO]

I will say $19,750 Corn - $2.75 Soybeans - $8.25

 

[Bob]

The price of the base tractor was $19,374.00 roll grad cab with a_c and heater $910.00, 16 speed transmission $298.00, quick coupler three point $1244.00, long axles $120.00, eight wheels four cast and four steel 30" $385.00, 8 twenty three one thirty 8 ply r1 $3299.00, daul remote $330.00, engine coolant heater $15.75, federal excise tax $160.08 for a total of 26,135.83. Beans 14.10 and corn 3.61 anyway that the prices I had wrote down in a old note book. I wish tractor and grain were more in line today. Thanks alot to you all, I had fun with this, I no what the old timer mean when they say the good old days now.

 

[Ilnewholland]

I know what you mean, I remember the bean price from that year because I had to help my dad clean out all the bins and every little place that we had beans. We would shovle up a pick-up truck load(about 65 bu.) and take them to town. After hauling four loads out, went to the Ford dealer and paid cash for a new pick-up truck. That's the day I said I am going to be a farmer! Ilnh p.s. I have never been able to pay cash for a pick-up yet.

 

[Unit_2]

Ilnh, Your dad was lucky to have even a few pick-up loads to sell. I can remember my dad talking about all the things he'ld buy if he had some $14.00 beans to sell. Anybody know how long the beans were up at that priceIJ K.A.

 

[Ilnewholland]

U2, They wasn't there very long, as I remember them moving $2-3 a day. Some of my neighbors were going to hold out for $20 bu. We started cleaning everything out when they got to $12.00, and we would do a very good job of getting every last one too. I think dad even knew how much one grain of bean was worth............ If only Nixon was back! Ilnh

 

[Unit_2]

Ilnh, let's see, if Nixon was back, my dad and I would be running three CII Gleaners, cutting for $5.00 an acre plus .05 cents for hauling, be carring a fraction of the debt that I now carry by myself. We would have every combine paid off before we trade for new ones and be making more money. Those realy were the good old times, weren't they. K.A.

 

[NHD]

I can only add that I remember it well in that we still had beans in the field that were under water and ice earlier, In the fall it was too muddy to get thru the field. Anyway we got some cold weather in mid-winter. We got out there harvesting and beat our brains out to get them into the elevator. I think they were $9.00 when we finished. On top of that the night we finished I thought I was doing a good deed by helping a neighbor do his last 80 acres, which we finished about mid-night. Then it turned nice for a week or so. He sure was mad at me when just a couple of days later they went up to $14.00.