Who would buy a brand new small combine?

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   I was told for years from people we couldn't afford to run and maintain a combine for 250 acres.  There is noooo way I would rely on a Custom Harvester. Not because we have had a bad experience, but I want to get the crop when it's right. It's different for everybody, but an example would be a field of soybeans that you want to cut a some of the high spots off that have dried down before the lower part of the field...is a custom harvester going to come over for 8-9 acres and then come back? What about spots of replant corn?  We ran a K2 for years and then bought a low hour JD6620 and have been running it for 17 years.  As far as performance..I have walked through fields harvested by "new" machines and while they may be more efficient in terms of acres/hour I have not been impressed with them getting anymore of the crop in the bin than mine. There are a lot of smaller, low houred, combines still out there.

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	I was told for years from people we couldn't afford to run and maintain a combine for 250 acres. There is noooo way I would rely on a Custom Harvester. Not because we have had a bad experience, but I want to get the crop when it's right. It's different for everybody, but an example would be a field of soybeans that you want to cut a some of the high spots off that have dried down before the lower part of the field...is a custom harvester going to come over for 8-9 acres and then come back? What about spots of replant corn? We ran a K2 for years and then bought a low hour JD6620 and have been running it for 17 years. As far as performance..I have walked through fields harvested by "new" machines and while they may be more efficient in terms of acres/hour I have not been impressed with them getting anymore of the crop in the bin than mine. There are a lot of smaller, low houred, combines still out there.

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