Check out the video of this huge farm in Alberta. Machinery To Farm 86,000 acres.

Video from Farm Hand Studios.

HUUUGE farm in Alberta! Does 86000 acres!
14 combines
12 seeders
10 swathers
An amazing fleet of Petes, a big bud and many other amazing pieces of equipment! Any farmers heaven

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Permalink Reply by Roadrunner on November 9, 2012 at 8:36am

Great video.

That is one major operation and huge fleet of machinery.

I would imagine they need to be pretty organized to manage the logistics farming that many acres.

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Permalink Reply by Iain Robson on December 13, 2012 at 11:40pm

Talk about a huge operation. That is crazy. I haven't seen any operations that big in Ontario that I know of.

Thanks for sharing

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