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I'm not a farmer but harvest time can be pretty intense. You might only have a narrow window to get certain crops in where the crops are ready and the weather has been right and your onward destination can accept them physically and contractually. So have all the other farms. And that crop represents your yearly income. So you have all this demand in this time window and you have equipment sitting there cause computer says no. Very frustrating.

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Harvest season is 15-16 hour days for months, all hands on deck. The upside is that the pay is wildly better than any other time.

I’ve known a few farmhands and they claimed to not mind harvest season because of the pay.

When my brother and I were in college, I worked as a farm hand the same summer he was working a computer engineering internship. His hours were capped at 39/wk and he still made more money per week than I did working 80/wk.

I loved farming, but there is not a ton of money in unskilled labor. (Sure, you can do a lot better if you have skills/experience or own the farm...)

That is part of the reason why people buy Deere. They have superb logistics and the best dealer network in farm equipment.

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