From the beginning of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, one of the criticalproblems has been harvesting machinery. Conventional combines cost more than a hundred thousand dollars, and that is an expense that isn’t feasible for small producers. Small acreages are also not attractive to custom combiners, who do work for other farmers, especially if it is a crop that may require adjustments to the machine (like dried beans). I have wished for a long time for a small scale combine that would be affordable. The Open Farm Tech people think that once developed, a micro-combine could be built by a farmer with reasonable farm skills for less than a thousand US dollars.
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