Hursh: Equipment costs can sink farms

On the heels of Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina back in mid-June, farmers got to see eye-popping new equipment at equally eye-popping prices at the Ag in Motion outdoor trade show northwest of Saskatoon from July 17 to 19.
We’re in an era when the biggest tractors hooked to the biggest and best new seed drills have a combined price tag in the range of $1.5 million. New combines are typically well over a half million and then you can spend an additional $100,000-plus on a straig