DB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 10,1982
COLUMBIA, Mo. You can tell
a lot about a farmer by the kind of
tractor he owns, if a recent
Missouri study is any indication.
The study showed that a typical
owner of a four-wheel drive
tractor:
• Fanned nearly twice as much
land as his neighbor.
• Probably was “overpowered”
in terms of horsepower per acre
farmed.
• Managed to keep labor and
machinery costs under control, but
had higher production costs.
• Bought the tractor because it
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Findings were part of the mail-in
records study conducted by Myron
Bennett and Caroll Kirtley,
University ot Missoun-Columbia
farm management specialists.
They studied 14 farmers who
owned four-wheel drive tractors.
They were compared to 42 selected
crop farmers with similar
operations in the same areas of the
state.
Findings showed the farmers
with four-wheel drive tractors
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farmed an average of 1,400 acres of
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The average number ot acres
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drive vehicle. A rule of thumb was
that gram farmers should have one
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“Based on this guide,” the
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are overpowered. Yet their labor
and machinery costs per acre are
not higher than average costs
reported by other crop farmers
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In addition to their tour-wheel
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models that are completely
depreciated but are kept for
specific uses such as spraying,
applying fertilizer and so on.
Four-wheel drive * tractors are
basically used tor tillage.
The owners bought the four
wheel drive tractors to substitute
for labor, the economists said.
They made the substitution
without increasing their labor and
machinery costs per cropland
acre.
•‘Their labor and machinery
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less than the 42 crop farmers ($B9
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When asked why they bought
tour-wheel drive tractors, the
owners gave these reasons; “get
all work done taster,” “taster
planting in the spring,” “cheaper
horsepower,” “labor savings,”
“other neighbors’ experience,”
"needed investment credit,” and
“bought for the same price as two
wheel drive tractors.”
They also said the tour-wheel
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"more comfortable,” “can gel
jobs done on a more timely basis,"
and' ’can farm more land. ”
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