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ARPS 3 PH Backhoe
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White 4 row corn planter $ 1,500
Used IHC & J.D. drills
Mott Mower $ 1,500
IHC 5F auto reset plow $ 3,000
MF220B Spreader $ 6,995
Rebuilt NH Spreader $ 2,500
USED TRACTORS
Satoh 25HP $ 1,995
MF 255D, A-1 $10,500
Thomas Skid Steer Ldr. Demo $17,900
MF95 $ 2,500
FWD truck w/Plow AS IS $ 1,000
J.D.60HP2030 $ 6,995
MF275D w/Ldr, Exc $12,500
Belaris 800 w/cab $ 5,995
Owatona Skid Steer, Exc $ 7,500
Leland 344 $ 4,500
MF35G w/Ldr $ 3,500
AC Fork Lift $ 3,500
EBRO 470 w/cab
Kubota 12HP w/mower. 2 yr $ 5,500
MF500 $ 2,995
MF 245D w/Ldr, GOOD $ 9,500
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Meaford, Ont.
Phone: 519.538.1660 or
1.800.265.3116 in 519 area.
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PC. 14 SPECIAL EQUIPMENT SPECIAL,
Getting started at farming
If you're getting started at farm-
ing you will have limited capital
and experience.
You may need all the money you
can lay your hands on to build
your production base. Things like
livestock, feed and quota have to
come first. A farm that's short in
this area is like a car with no
engine. It just won't start.
If you have been farming for
some years and are having some
financial difficulties this article
will help you to priorize your
equipment needs. Help you to
decide what equipment you could
sell and what you must keep and
replace.
If you are financially well
established don't waste any time
reading this article. You can buy
the equipment that you want and
maintain your independence. The
following suggestion means you
will have to depend on others to
get some of your crop work done.
1. Start with a small tractor —
possibly with a loader. You'll need
a unit like this on a regular basis
for routine jobs and clean-up
work. If your farm is about 100 to
200 acres, a 60 horsepower unit
will be sufficient. Anything over 80
horsepower is probably too big.
You want to start with a light
manoeuverable and fuel efficient
tractor.
2. A snowblower is probably next
in this part of the country. You
need to keep your laneway open
for milk, feed and livestock
shipments.
3. Secondary tillage should be your
next consideration. You need the
control over timing of spring
tillage. Delayed planting is still a
big yield depressor. You can't
plant until the ground is worked.
You don't need several pieces of
secondary tillage. Start with a
cultivator that will maximize your
tractor's horsepower. A cultivator
is more versatile than a disc. A disc
can come later. A set of harrows
would be good. They don't have to
be fancy. Just something to level
the ground.
4. Planting equipment ranks right
behind spring tillage equipment.
The main consideration is again
timeliness. You should be able to
work and plant fields when the soil
is in the right condition rather than
to suit someone else's timetable.
Again, you don't need a big unit.
APRIL, 1986
A 4 -row planter is lots of planter
for a 200 acre farm.
5. Next on your list might be a
wagon suitable for grain, fertilizer
and seed, picking stones etc. You
can gain a little speed and flexibili-
ty at both planting and harvest.
6. A manure spreader should come
next if you're in the livestock
business. Manure spreading can be
fairly readily custom hired. If
you're dealing with large quantities
of manure and have a good crop
rotation you may be able to use
your time profitably by doing your
own spreading. You'll gain a little
more control over the amount of
compaction that is done to your
fields.
7. A plow is next on your list of
priorities. It is not as important as
a planter. You can readily have
your land custom plowed, every
year before freeze-up.
The preceding list has now got
you to the first level of in-
dependence. You can get all the
main farming operations done ex-
cept spraying and harvesting.
8. If you have all the pieces of
equipment that are listed up to this
point, you may be justified in
looking at another tractor. The se-
cond tractor will help you gain
some time on jobs like secondary
tillage and planting. With a little
hired labour you can keep both
units working. You may be able to
improve the timeliness of some of
these related operations. This se-
cond tractor should be bigger, say
80 to 120 H.P.
Now that you have a big tractor
the obvious move is to trade your
cultivator and plow for larger
pieces of machinery.
9. Now you may be ready to look
at haying equipment — things like
a mower -conditioner and a baler.
10. At this point you may want to
purchase a weed sprayer. There are
plenty of good custom herbicide
applicators around this area.
However, you may find that the
critical timing of some applications
and repeat sprays made necessary
by problem weeds will make a
weed sprayer practical for you.
You can still use a custom spray
operator for weed and feed pro-
grams. With a sprayer you will
have to spend more time learning
about herbicide.
11. If you have all the preceding
equipment you are probably run-
ning out of places to put it. The