Tractors are getting more costly every year

[deserteagle71]

Go big or go home! These days you can buy yourself a John Deere that lists at well over a million dollars!

20 Of The Most Expensive Tractors Ever Made, Ranked - SlashGear

Tractors do some of the hardest work of any machine in an agricultural setting, but their versatility and durability command extraordinary prices.

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[Hay Dude]

Go big or go home! These days you can buy yourself a John Deere that lists at well over a million dollars!

20 Of The Most Expensive Tractors Ever Made, Ranked - SlashGear

Tractors do some of the hardest work of any machine in an agricultural setting, but their versatility and durability command extraordinary prices.

www.slashgear.com

I really cannot fathom the gross income that needs to be generated to pay off that tractor and question if it can ever actually be done.

 

[CalG]

Back home.... my cousin farms..

it's a $7M line of credit every spring.....More now ..Unless he has cut back. Age and all.

 

[walnutman]

Not just tractors. I stopped at a food truck today. A single burger without cheese or fries, $11. $4.5 for fries, and $4 for can soda.

Dont think so.

Walked over to taco truck. They wanted $15 for 3 tacos.

Dont think so

Went to Red Robin, ate in air cond restaurant and had full meal for way less money. And alot better food.

Was going to hit buffalo wild wings for their lunch specials for about $10 which include drinks, but was on opposite side of town.

What happened to cheep food trucks

Yea food trucks think they got something special. Their service is slow as molassis. They make out good at large events. People just pay and they know it. Around here you mght see a craft brew trailer. $9 for a 12oz.

 

[walnutman]

The question is.. at what point does lack of sales drive down prices?
The more affluent that can afford things.... are their enough of them to support production if us peons stick with used equipment?

Ever since covid, Bidenflation and untenable deficit spending, prices took a big step up.
Inflation is low now and seems to be in check but not much lowering of prices. I get the feeling producers have learned to build less and sell at higher prices.

Capitolism seems to have a shelf life.

People have found ways to make great money sitting behind a computer. I just sucked 12k this year out of one crypto.

I'm looking at possibly purchasing the Ferris IS6200 CAT diesel ZTR. I see MSRP pricing at 38k but am seeing behind the scene prices around 33k. Don't you love it how they set a super high MSRP so when they take 10 or 20% off you feel like you got a deal?

And what is really nuts is the price of loaded diesel pickups. These ranchers down here in Texas don't blink an eye at 80-100k.

One property might have people living in an RV with trash all around them smoking meth and right next door the guy pulls in to his hundred of acres ranch with his megatruck. Many times it's a women driving it. Old money... properties handed down.

 

[Merck]

My first tractor (Fordson E27n) cost me $200 cash. Brand new rear tires, but needed the main bearings re-babbited. (Mowing hills with only splash lube is a devils mix)

The second tractor (Bolens HT, with a 54 inch mowing deck and snow blower) I traded for a Honda trail 90 that I had bought for $80

The third tractor, B7200 came along with a snow blower that I wanted , all for $2K

The forth tractor (Hurlimann Prince 435) was bought from a dealer for $6500, but I asked the fellow throw in a Cat 1 tool bar and a new seat!.

The fifth tractor, is a B2601, that was a private sale at $12,500. Less than 200 hours, with FEL and a rear snow blower, wheel chains and spacers. The fellow delivered it to the house.

All of them are in good shape and I use them all the time/

Now I hear the dollar is losing value. With this prgression, I can't imagine what the next tractor is gonna cost!

You are right about them going up. I paid $17k for a Kubota L3200 in 2012 new. That model is no longer made but the equivalent size when I checked a couple of years ago was $26K. Probably $30K now. Prices are crazy on everything. Bad part I remember paying 15 cents for a gallon of gas and I have seen it for as little as 12 cents. Bought a new VW in 1972 for $1900. Try that now.

 

[dugndeep]

Televisions. For as much as six decades, the average "large" family room television had cost very roughly $700. But what you would get for $700 improved dramatically over that time, and the value of said $700 kept decreasing over time.

Yeah, I've paid double that for leading-edge TV's (e.g. 75" LED back in 2011), but the greater trend is the masses of 45" and 50" LED TV's that can now be had for $250 - $450... an amount most make in a single day. Your father probably had to save for weeks to buy a TV... for $700.

Computers are an even better example. I remember my father buying three computers in the mid-1980's, each close to $5k. Today, I buy $800 computers for my wife and kids, which work quite well for basic home chores. Even my high-end engineering workstations are under $10k... roughly $2k-$3k in mid-80's dollars, and these can do more calculations in a few seconds than my father's computers did in a full day.

Had lightning run in on the outside tv antenna tower Saturday afternoon & fried 2 tv's,one in the living room & one in the bedroom.Had a brand new Bounty Hunter Land Ranger metal detector sitting 3 to 4 feet from the 75ohm cable,it turned it on somehow,so it was going off,electrical smoke,it shook the whole house,I was in the kitchen & probably broke the vertical leap record,took the internet out for 3 or 4 hours,I couldn't stand sitting there in silence without a tv or internet on a Saturday night,I haven't been out on a Saturday night in years,so I jumped up,put my shoes on & run to Walmart & bought a new 43" tv for the living room & paid $156.Bedroom tv will have to wait.

 

[jack9166]

My first tractor (Fordson E27n) cost me $200 cash. Brand new rear tires, but needed the main bearings re-babbited. (Mowing hills with only splash lube is a devils mix)

The second tractor (Bolens HT, with a 54 inch mowing deck and snow blower) I traded for a Honda trail 90 that I had bought for $80

The third tractor, B7200 came along with a snow blower that I wanted , all for $2K

The forth tractor (Hurlimann Prince 435) was bought from a dealer for $6500, but I asked the fellow throw in a Cat 1 tool bar and a new seat!.

The fifth tractor, is a B2601, that was a private sale at $12,500. Less than 200 hours, with FEL and a rear snow blower, wheel chains and spacers. The fellow delivered it to the house.

All of them are in good shape and I use them all the time/

Now I hear the dollar is losing value. With this prgression, I can't imagine what the next tractor is gonna cost!

In 1996 I bought a used 20hp Kubota with 225 hours for 6,000. In 2001 I bought a new L3010 Kubota with loader and remotes for 19,000. In 2012 I bought a new Kubota L3540 with loader and remotes for 24,500. In January 2025 I bought a new Kubota L4060 with loader, remotes and air ride seat for 44,500. Huge increase on the last one.

 

[walnutman]

You are right about them going up. I paid $17k for a Kubota L3200 in 2012 new. That model is no longer made but the equivalent size when I checked a couple of years ago was $26K. Probably $30K now. Prices are crazy on everything. Bad part I remember paying 15 cents for a gallon of gas and I have seen it for as little as 12 cents. Bought a new VW in 1972 for $1900. Try that now.

Actually with the time value of money, gas is now sometimes cheaper than in the 70s.

 

[charlessenf]

"Tractors are getting more costly every year"

Duh!
Such a woke observation!