It finally happened. We bought a tractor. This is a 28-hp Mahindra, a four-wheel-drive diesel. One of the “compact” models so popular these days, it comes with a front-end loader and a 60-inch mower deck. As you can see, it’s easy enough to operate that our 14-year-old daughter can drive it around the property. She […]
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Could this be the tractor for us? What you’re looking at is a 30-horsepower diesel Kubota with front-end loader, four-wheel drive and agricultural tires. After a relentless search on the internet for used “compact” tractors around this size, we found this one at a local dealer. Small tractors are in high demand because of all […]
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Many readers responded to our hand-wringing over a tractor purchase and the vote was unanimous: Buy the tractor! My sister Diane, who owned a small farm in northern Illinois with her husband years ago, was emphatic: “We used our tractor ALL the time, and we only had 5.5 acres.” Vermont farmer and author Ben Hewitt […]
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