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There are vendors with more basic equipment. But John Deere's selling point is the complex features they offer. I watched some farming YouTube videos and I was
by minhazm 4y ago
There are vendors with more basic equipment. But John Deere's selling point is the complex features they offer. I watched some farming YouTube videos and I was surprised by the technology in modern tractors. The tractors will drive by themselves and they'll keep track of what land they've already covered, help you align, let you control how many seeds you're planting per acre, etc. It's all very high tech and a single person in a single tractor can cover a massive area and their job is mostly just to supervise the tractor and make sure they don't run out of seed or whatever they're putting down.
- tartoran 4y agoAmazing features, too bad all the margin profits will end up into JDs pockets.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> too bad all the margin profits will end up into JDs pockets The reason these tractors sell is they have positive ROI. That doesn’t justify the tying. But assuming they’re money losers will lead to poor decisions.
- CuriouslyC 4y agoPositive-ish, assuming you have good harvests. If you have a bad run of harvests the debt for that expensive tractor will end your farm though.
- airza 4y agoI mean, they can have ROI, but if having one saves you 90K a year and they cost 89k a year is that really the optimal way to structure society?
- function_seven 4y agoSo saves me 1k a year? I don't think farmers are converting their equipment to John Deere for such a paltry improvement. But if it does truly net me 90K additional profit (and thus the gross improvement is 179k, half of which is spent on the capital to make that improvement), then yes, that looks optimal.
- yeuxardents 4y agoMillenial Farmer on youtube illustrates this pretty great. I watched an entire year of videos from planting to harvest time and all that was involved tech-wise was pretty interesting...along with his frustrations with John Deere. https://www.youtube.com/c/MNMillennialFarmer https://www.youtube.com/c/MNMillennialFarmer
- cjrp 4y agoStrong recommend for Harry's Farm too.