Have you ever driven past a large tractor pulling a tillage tool and kicking up dust in a farm field and thought to yourself ‘I wonder how much money it’s costing that farmer in the driver’s seat to run that thing?’ If so, you might be a fellow machinery geek, and you also might want to check out The University of Illinois’ Farm Business Management “Machinery Costs Estimate: Tractors” report. The study, published on Sept. 1, found that a high-horsepower, brand-new row crop tract...
