glasshouse
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You dont need to replace machinery .The main point is as @Wigeon has alluded to is that farming output inflation has not kept up with imput or cost of living inflation so profit in real terms has dropped massively, the fact that lots of you are saying new machinery is not affordable demonstrates this perfectly. Just to stand still in real terms you need to get bigger, much bigger, you can only cut costs and streamline the business so much, otherwise we are just going to get poorer and poorer in real terms. Does the government care about food security and farm gate prices, of course not, silly farmers will just keep farming it whatever, cheap food for everyone is more important.
25 yr old kit is perfectly adequate if well looked after.