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Ddaddy said
Yeah, but thats comparing apples and oranges. A good quality semi truck cost the same or more as that tractor did back then.

Industrial vehicles meant to haul and make money always cost way more than passenger cars do.

Well yes. That would be a better comparison but still, the point stands. Which is that farming hasn’t been cheap for a long long long while it ever in the industrialized era of farming.