Capital Assets

The Europard 82-hp 4wd tractor has been an enormous asset. We have put almost 400 hours on it in the last 7 months since arriving in early January. The tractor consumes an average of $500/month for fuel and maintenance. But it has enabled us to double our crop production, and we have hopes of tripling our production next season. The tractor also enabled us to plant everything “on time” this season, even though an extended dry season shortened the planting window.

Our tractor implements include a two-row John Deere planter, a disc plough, a disc harrow, chisel plough, pull behind mower, leveling blade, and wagon. However, as we move toward commercial farming, our hope is to make capital investments that would include a maize harvester ($15,000), a boom sprayer ($2500), and a forage chopper ($1200).