Farming still offers the primary means of food production in the world today. With all of the technology in the world today, dropping a seed in the ground is still the way to get a crop to grow. Technology has improved the methods by which we drop the seed in the ground, and how we cultivate the crop.

A vital part of that technology is the farm tractor.
They replaced the old ways of plowing and planting by the use of mules, oxen, and even horses. They do not have to stop for a water brake, nor leave deposits in the rows that the farmer must step over. This equipment greatly increased the speed with which farm work could be done, thus making the farmer more productive, eventually yielding more income.

The sign tractors for sale can be found on the lot of many farm equipment places throughout the world, but there are a limited number of successful manufacturers through out the world. There have been many companies that tried to build good,lasting tractors for sale, but there remain primarily about seven companies today, and they are: John Deere, Case IH, Agco, New Holland, Caterpillar, JCB,and Kubota.

Many new farmers start out with used tractors. Used tractors can still offer good service to a farmer that knows something about maintaining used farm machinery, and come at a fraction of the cost. A used tractor comes with most of the same accessories as new tractor. Beginning in the late 1960\’s, and the early 1970\’s tractors started coming with luxury packages on them; such as closed in air conditioned cabs, am/fm radios and tape decks. Some of them had extra heavy shock absorbers, to offer a better ride in the rough terrain of a farm field. This type of used farm machinery has proven to be a good investment. So a used tractor can prove to be a bargain.

The farm tractor offers the flexibility to the manufacturer of making a few modifications, and it being able to be used in the construction industry. The backhoe, front end loader,excavator, riding lawn mower, street sweeper, and the forklift, are a few of the off springs of the basic machine. The company JCB is one of the manufacturers that has taken the advantage of the diverse uses of this piece of machinery. Even a used JCB piece of equipment is considered a prized piece of used machinery. Used JCB is found in the construction industry just as much as one would find JCB used machinery on a farm.

The evolution from the 40 acres farms to the 1,000 acre farms being the average, is due to the revolution bought about by the use of the mobile equipment. Farming hours have been reduced, and altered from being just a day time job to an around the clock job if need be. The world has been able to eat more, with greater variety since farmers reached out to the invention of that piece of equipment that replaced the mule.

Author Bio: Robert Tate – Region Sales Manager of Mascus UK. Mascus is an electronic marketplace for tractors for sale, used trucks and trailers for sale. Mascus makes trading in construction machinery more efficiently by collecting all information about supply and demand in one place.

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